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NYT Reports Steve Jobs' Exoneration
heyitsgogi writes "The New York Times is reporting that Apple has cleared Steve Jobs of any wrongdoing. From the article: 'In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Apple said that while its investigation revealed that the company's stock option procedures did not include sufficient safeguards to prevent manipulation, Mr. Jobs did not benefit financially from any questionable stock awards.' As a result of the internal investigation, Apple said it would record $84 million in expenses related to the options awards."
Clearly the Reality Distortion Field is expanding over time. This is the best evidence yet.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Well, one way to look at it is that his return was hailed so highly in the first place because of the direct influence of the steve jobs reality distortion field (RDF). Another way to look at it is that he was hired because of the RDF as opposed to as a result of it - it tends to have a spreading effect that assists the companies he helms as well.
There's also the fact that NeXT managed to limp along LONG after it was proven to not have a hope in hell, and that Pixar is the most successful company in its space...
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
If the New York Times says it, then it must be true -- NOT!!
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Geez - it's not as if Steve Jobs is God or anything (zealots' assertions to the contrary, of course. IMHO the only reason Jobs' return to Apple was hailed so highly in the first place was because the people he replaced were as incompetent as Hell).
The sad part is so many people put him above reproach and the good guy in contrast to Gates in the great computer wars. Yet in comparing personal lives, Gates gives away more money than Jobs makes, and Jobs is not poor, yet he does very little as a philanthropist short of giving Apple computer discounts to schools to get more market share.
Jobs is just another greedy business person, I see him more like Ballmer from MS. Gates has been removed from a lot of MS for years, and personally I would trust him to do the right thing when it comes to society, Jobs and Ballmer I wouldn't trust to manage a bucket at xmas time in front of a KMart.
(I'm not saying Jobs isn't smart, or good at what he does, or anything like that. He has had good ideas, especialy the graphic design concepts he pushes on hardware, Macs look cool. I just think Gates doesn't get credit for the good he does do in the world, and he doesn't squeak very loud about it, so a lot of it goes under the radar.)