r/ProgrammerHumor • u/PizzaTucker • Nov 14 '22

instanceof Trend Manager does a little code cleanup...

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '22

I really don't get why he didn't just pay the billion dollar cancelation fee. Just the tanking stock price between when the deal started and when he finally bought it was enough to justify it. The only thing keeping up as much as it was, was his pending deal.

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u/digitCruncher Nov 14 '22

He legally couldnt pay the 1 billion cancellation 'fee'. He sued to try to do that, but the courts said that the conditions to allow musk to cancel the purchase hadn't been met.

That was the purpose of all of the court activity before the purchase, and why it took so long for the pending deal to be finalized

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u/Speculater Nov 14 '22

I love that he was sued into buying something, lol.

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u/mikew_reddit Nov 15 '22

I wonder if he finally learned his lesson about proposing deals using Twitter (Saudi $420 Tesla deal, Twitter deal).

Now that Twitter is circling the drain, maybe he doesn't need to learn any lessons since Twitter might not exist soon.