If that's what's going on, then I'm surprised they wouldn't also want to silence all the speculation and discontent on the boards. How hard would it be for a potential buyer to find this? Unless everyone is just banking on the fact that when some sign of life and progress is announced, we will all be instantly subdued.

And just speaking personally, I'm not one to hold a grudge with this. If we got a spectacularly exciting (and credible) announcement today, I probably would be instantly happy. A new hardware device announcement would make me less happy for selfish reasons, but content that the company would continue to exist and probably at least support the models in existence. An announcement of a buyer would probably be exciting because you would think a new company would purchase in order to build on the technology.

But, people are feeling like jumping ship in the mean time. And if a deal isn't far along in negotiations, I would have to think that the current (pretty much exclusive) use of this forum wouldn't help matters.