timeframe ? legal action, page-2

lol - when neal and linden and ian reach agreement re price.

just read an interesting recent piece saying that ''GA chairman and CEO Neal Blue and vice-chairman Linden were officially inducted into San Diegos Entrepreneur Hall of Fame''..

full url is http://www.xconomy.com/san-diego/2009/01/29/general-atomics-blue-brothers-get-inducted-and-thats-a-good-thing/

it says, inter alia :''Fortune magazine article noted in October, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, which operates as an affiliated-but-independent company in San Diego, has sold more than $2.4 billion worth of unmanned aircraftincluding the renowned Predatorto the U.S. military over the past decade.'' - so don't think they've been badly affected by the GFC ..

i know you are being cynical/sardonic cb but can understand your frustrations. we have to remember tho' that alliance is dealing with a formidable private joint partner - one that that would make most control freaks we know look compliant.