Re:how much is publicly purchasable? (Score 1)

From what I gather through Yahoo! Finance, 8% is held by so-called all-insider and 5% owners (and this case the full 8% is owned by Frank Batten jr. former member of the Board of Directors)anyone from buying a 95%+ share and remove Red Hat from the stock exchange. The total stock value is about $2.5 billion so I think owning all Red Hat stock would mean owning Red Hat. MS could buy more 50% and up to 100% if the shareholders let them.