Off topic, but...

Seeing the word "Elliott" in the title gave me a flashback to 1968 and the Elliott 803 I first learned to program on. Was only the smallest model with 4k storage, as I remember, and only paper tape for input/output (but *fast*, until you had to print it out on a Flexowriter). As such it only ran the assembly system (system!) and Elliott Autocoder - no Algol. Nice big operator's control panel and a few winky light to show you when/where your program was looping. The architecture could only be described as basic: made the original Intel 8080 look sophisticated. One accumulator, and Q-register is all I remember. No index registers and virtually all code was self-modifying since indexing and subroutine linkage was achieved through program storage. Booted from paper tape via a 5-word program hard wired into th efirst five words of storage.

Sorry for the distraction, we now return you to the scheduled program.

Be afraid, Compuware..

The stunt mentioned in the first post is (as one might surmise) merely one example of the alleged behaviour that has earned Paul Singer his reputation.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carl-pope/romney-delphi-auto_b_2051373.html

http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/10/10/339862/paul-singer-vulture-capitalist-journalists/?mobile=nc

In other words, if I were associated with Compuware I would be thinking "timeo danaos et dona ferentes".