Never thought I'd say this but you are as clueless as Lumiaman. Boozed out geeks? You think it's boozed out geeks not buying Nokia phones? If anything it's a bunch of not very sober geeks keeping Nokia alive by buying them. I don't think you understand a public company at all. Can I ask who these investors are, where their money is going and how exactly they are financing Nokia? There has been no leveraged buyout. If these special investors exist then why are there factory closures, sales office closures and mass layoffs? Do you honestly believe Nokia wanted this to happen if it had the financial backing needed to keep them running? It's very naive and frankly stupid to think that the "bean counters" do not matter. Anyway, as predicted last week, stock decrease in the run up to the earnings report. A buyout is a possibility but I'm not sure who would want the baggage other than MS (it's their baggage, a type of third party poison pill), so it may not happen at all.