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Technology Stocks : Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RetiredNow who wrote (57720)	2/20/2002 9:12:19 AM
From: BWAC	Respond to of 77400

Who has to do anything illegal to hide expenses anyway? Just operate like the pharma/biotech industry. Set up a whole separate "loss leader" company. And let it trade on its own potential and hype. Kick in enough seed money every year to keep it afloat. About time, if ever, they develop a product the big pharma is in position to bring the company back in. The whole while offloading the R&D expense and such onto the "Loss Leader" company. Never affecting, lowering the profits of the established company. Maybe thats what CSCO needs to do with its R&D, offload it to a new "Loss Leader" company? And people would fall all over themselves buying this new company that represents CSCO R&D. Yet now everybody wants to gripe about a loss largely incurred due to such costs as R&D for the future? It would be great comedy, if it weren't so ridiculous.