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To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (24310)	10/3/2000 11:47:04 PM
From: Spekulatius	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

I read an interesting article in the WSJ today: "Web of interests" - At Cisco, Executives accumulate stakes in Clients, suppliers. Its about the free wheeling business practice of giving (pre IPO) stock options to employees of business partners,"friends and families". I cannot help but this reminds me of business practices in third world countries. Years ago, the word for this was bribery. If someone makes out big with no risk, somebody else has to loose - the stockholders. It seems that companies in the networking business throw around stock options like lottery tickets. But maybe that's what they are...