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From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 12:52:40 -0500
[ by the way, I am in Irvine California at the Hyatt regency and using my Metricom Ricochet modem. It works like a champ here djf] Due in bookstores this Spring, the new book by Gil Amelio - deposed as CEO of Apple Computer and replaced by Steve Jobs -- says that Jobs claimed that he (Amelio) was the only person who could save Apple, but then began manipulating the board of directors to fire him. What was Amelio's problem turning Apple around? He thinks it was a culture clash between him and the Apple organization: "Brioni suits and oxfords meeting Levi's and Birkenstocks." (USA Today 16 Jan 98)
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