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by shk88 3804 days ago
I think this would be more work than it's worth. Legal overhead + the likelihood of the stock being worth anything for a low possibility of future revenue seems like a losing proposition.

They'd be better off focusing resources on their core competency and giving the cloud services away for free (up to a point). See the Microsoft BizSpark program for an example of this.