Doesn't to me either. $2 billion for Palm sounds like drinking financial Kool-Aid to me.

But you have a point...a survival strategy? Or trying to induce an idiot's bidding war to maximize the selling price? Much stranger things have happened with companies struggling to stay afloat. For example, anyone remember the photos of John DeLorean dealing drugs from a suitcase to raise cash to keep DeLorean Motors in business?