Hey, I would love to be wrong, but this is business - smart and ruthless. You MUST look at all angles, and follow the money... And the money says that Cliff isn't positive that we have the goods, but they want to have their foot in the door in case we do.

By owning 50.5% of Big Daddy, they are ensuring that no bidding war can be done for control of the resources. They learned their lesson with Noront last fall, but at a cheap price.