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Re:Google combines Maps and Waze teams in restructuring move by ramesh31 on Thursday December 08, 2022 @06:35PM (#33915345)
> In effect, TCI can't compel them to do anything they don't want to do.

Yes, they can. It’s called fiduciary responsibility, and shareholders sue for it all the time.

Re:Google combines Maps and Waze teams in restructuring move by gumby on Thursday December 08, 2022 @06:54PM (#33915534)
Their fiduciary responsibility is not to defraud the shareholders. Milton Friedman’s idea that management’s only constituency is the shareholders is not actually a matter of law.

Management can just say “in our judgement X is the right thing to do, not Y”. Google is too big for TCI to try to gain control over.

Re:Google combines Maps and Waze teams in restructuring move by baryphonic on Thursday December 08, 2022 @07:18PM (#33915759)
Re:Google combines Maps and Waze teams in restructuring move by joshuamorton on Thursday December 08, 2022 @10:11PM (#33916943)
The wikipedia page pretty accurately summarizes why Dodge v. Ford isn't really a useful citation.

Firstly, if an executive says "we believe this is in the interest of long-term shareholder value", the courts basically just defer to their judgement. You can't get the courts to run a company for you.

And second, the precedent has been softened since 1916 (or wasn't even true at the time), and for example some corporations like B-corps explicitly reject it, without any legal consequences.

Re:Google combines Maps and Waze teams in restructuring move by UncleMeat on Thursday December 08, 2022 @06:53PM (#33915529)
"We took a 50 billion dollars and lit it on fire" is meaningfully different from "we structured our teams in a way that you think is inefficient."
Re:Google combines Maps and Waze teams in restructuring move by brewdad on Thursday December 08, 2022 @06:36PM (#33915368)
In the US you can sue anyone for anything. It doesn't mean you'll win a damn cent though.