http://www.coindesk.com/investor-group-offers-buy-mt-gox-one-bitcoin/“Creditors will have two options. They can either receive a prorated amount from the 200,000 bitcoins recovered by Mt. Gox equal to roughly 20 percent of their claim, or obtain an equity stake of that amount in the revitalized Mt. Gox exchange. The investor group pledged to set aside 50% of transaction fees to pay back creditors over time.”
Get ~20% back -> I would not choose this myself from these options but it's still infinitely better than nothing and I am sure some people would prefer this one (and even be happy about it).
obtain an equity stake of that amount -> Sounds better. But why not for the full amount? I would be a happy man if I got a share for the full amount of BTC I had there. But I don't like the 80% cut if I am willing to participate in a long term and high risk investment like this (the actual net return could prove to be significantly less than 20% and you definitely wait more time for that uncertain amount...).
set aside 50% of transaction fees -> 80-90% would sound a lot better. Why can't these people wait until their exchange is 100% dept-free before they start pulling out some profit?
The exchange is not re-started for free. There are loads of legal, office, administration, hardware, software, time costs which probably would eat up a chunk of any fiat or bitcoins recovered
before a single exchange order can take place. It's not unreasonable for that to be recovered at the start instead of a long time later.
Yes, it can certainly look like a very reasonable thing from this point of view.
However, I don't think these are the kind of people who need to worry about how to pay their monthly phone bills.
They pay nothing for Karpeles and his Gay friend (other than that symbolic 1 BTC), so this reboot cost would be their only real investment into the new company. And I am sure that my share percentage in the company would be calculated against a significantly higher imaginary value than this reboot cost (it will probably be all the missing+remaining assets). So, it wouldn't be really fair even if they used my whole balance. But I would be still glad if they did. Not so happy if they count 20% only.
They need to please a lot of people in the early days if they want to succeed! They could start that here: offer a share for the full amount and dedicate 100% of the profits for paying debts first.
When everybody is happy and all debts are paid, they can still take profit. Or they can piss of everybody and never take any profit.