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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (64462)	9/11/2003 7:07:22 AM
From: rkral	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77397

OT ... Lizzie, re "As you like to say, options are a cost (even if they never amount to anything), salaries are a cost, benefits are a cost." OK. Let's see if I understand your positions. Relative to reporting net income, you believe options are not a cost. Relative to a possible trend to use an offshore workforce -- employee and outsourced -- you believe *options are a cost. It doesn't require the logic of Aristotle to see that you are not being consistent. To suit your arguments du jour, you can't have it both ways. Choose a) or b): a) Options are* a business expense. b) Options are not a business expense. JMO, Ron