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To: Alomex who wrote (17371)	8/28/1998 11:45:00 AM
From: Zen Dollar Round	Respond to of 213173

I sure hope he does. It was that kind of foolish attitude that made Apple spurn a $45 dollar a share offer from IBM. Three years later we have not reached those $45 per share again. If I were Jobs I would demand a 25% premium over closing and declare victory. Jobs is never going to sell his baby to another company, and why should he? At the time IBM made the offer, Apple was heading downhill and they all knew it. Jobs had no part in that Apple. Now that he's turning the company around, prospects for growth are better than they have been in many years. It would be interesting to know how different things might be now if Jobs had won that boardroom battle with Sculley, and Sculley was the one forced to leave. Perhaps the lessons Jobs has learned since have made him a better businessman, but I doubt he'd have let Apple get so bad in the first place. I say keep Apple independent of any other slow-footed, Big Brother companies like IBM, and run it like Jobs is doing now. Partnerships good, sellout bad.