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Subject: Re: Apple suing people, protection of ideas
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Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 22:17:27 EDT
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>                                             For quite some time Jobs was
> Chariman in name only, w/out any real powers.  Doubtless he wasn't really
> happy in that capacity, and started thinking about a new venture.  He offered
> to resign, then told some of his personal friends at Apple about his venture
> and asked them if they were interested, then tried a second time to resign.

I'm getting a little tired of this.  I'm sure we can all cheer for the
guy who started Apple in the garage with Woz, but we've all gotten a little
older and (I hope) wiser since then.

When you are on the board of a corporation (chairman, in fact), you are
in the same position of responsibility to the shareholders as a bank
trust officer is to the people that have money entrusted to him.  There
is a higher standard of behavior required, BOTH ethically and legally.
If Jobs wants to take his money and go home, fine.  Remember, he
sold a LOT of his stock.  If he wanted to run Apple forever, maybe he
shouldn't have sold ANY of his original stock.

Any adult (over 18, at least) who 'tries to resign' and can't is not
competent; therefore, I find it hard to believe the posting quoted above.

The ethical thing to do (and even that is borderline in some circles)
is to resign, then do your plannin when you're no longer an employee
or in another position of trust. ('fiduciary responsibility', if you like
long words).  Jobs did not do that, and as a consequence I have little
respect for him.

I hope Apple Computer nails him to the wall.

Oh yes, I'd be interested in any reasoned replys.  Flames to /dev/null,please.

	bill


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	William Cox
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	University of Wisconsin, Madison WI
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