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To: Stock Farmer who wrote (67279)	3/10/2005 1:13:18 AM
From: Elroy	Respond to of 77400

While your suggestion will make the cost perfectly obvious and unavoidable, therefore addressing root cause, it also obliterates a very effective tool at the same time. I agree it reduces the ability of a cash starved company to use equity financing. But this doesn't seem to be a concern to say, CSCO, EMC, SUNW or most of the large tech companies that are rolling in cash. I think it would be interesting if cash rich companies HAD to actually spend the money buy their "compensation options" over the counter and then give it to the employees once a year. Perhaps we would see companies deciding that their employees actually prefer $10 of cash to $10 of at the money calls that vest over 4 years?