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To: Don Lloyd who wrote (16447)	8/9/2002 2:14:23 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

You understand the point that one action doesn't require the other, so, to my mind, that cannot be considered a cost of the options. i agree they aren't necessarily linked. however, when they are, there IS a cost. that is my point. to say there definitively is no dollar cost isn't true. sometimes there isn't. lots of times there is. to the tune of billions. real dollars. ibm comes to mind.