I must admit that this has crossed my mind too... a shell company was created to conceal the assets of Amiga Inc in a very carefully executed maneouvre.
Whether this was good clever or bad clever remains to be seen...
If the secret service MI5 has a department with it's sole purpose to discredit and suppress then I'm sure the ruthless world of business has also considered departments in their companies to buy rivals, harvest them of their useful bits and suppress them ever re-entering the market.
Microsoft did have that thing with the AutoExecute patent didn't they?
;-)
