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To: Saturn V who wrote (96316)	1/14/2000 4:18:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Dear Saturn_V, <Buying a stock on the open market for past options is unthinkable,...> I am exceedingly sorry that I mislead you by saying "But these shares needs to be bought at current price". This phrase has clearly confused you and caused your outburst with "nullified" and "potential liabilities" and other righteous but unrelated stuff. Probably I should say "some other shares to compensate the pool", if it makes it any clearer for you. <The stock options do not work as you think. ... The company never buys the stock on the market for past options. It only buys for future options, employee stock purchase plans, or to be used for mergers.> Thank you:-) However, there is one thing that apparently has escaped your attention. The thing is that MONEY DO NOT SMELL. Therefore, from a balance sheet perspective, it does not matter what-so-ever when and why those shares were bought (tax rules aside). I am very sorry that you can't see the forest behind your trees. For example, who cares of which year were those 313,324 paper certificates that went into Mr. Albert Yu hands: biz.yahoo.com He paid Intel the whopping $1.84 per share. And immediately sold all of them for $60- $70 each. As a compensation for his valuable service. Those $1.84 times XXX shares, I guess, were accounted as Intel income. In today's books. The buyback, for whatever purpose, also happen this year. 4,600,000,000.00 dollars. Out of Intel's pocket. Today. Which part of this obvious construction you do not understand?