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First you did not know of this thread until I pinged you..

Firstly, Leo, only I knew of the YOUR article when you pinged me to it. Thank you for that. I did not post it because I thought the issue was twaddle. I am a businessman and have been in such negotiations and KNOW that you require such NDAs when you are talking about mergers, acquisitions, or anything that can have a major impact on the valuations of the companies involved. I thought it wasn't worth posting.

I saw the article when it was first published several days ago and thought "what a dolt. Beracha just destroyed any possibility of ever his being considered for another CEO position." I also did not think it was worth posting as news because it was just a "sour grapes" article by know nothings. However, since you posted it, I went ahead and pinged the list.

Second, analyzing my psyche, in absentia IS ATTACKING ME, an ad hominem... especially when your conclusions are completely denigrating and insulting. There is a prominent Apple troll who disappeared from FreeRepublic in the last day or two, possibly permanently, just for that kind of activity. No threat... I had nothing to do with it... just a word of warning. JimRob apparently finally had enough. I don't mind you posting articles of interest to the Mac/Apple Ping list members... but don't do me any favors if you are going to do it to "analyze my psyche," especially since you could not be more wrong.

Thirdly, my "spin" has nothing to do with being "pro Apple" in this instance. Apple does some stupid things... but always in their interest. This is the way things are done in BUSINESS... not just Apple.

Returning to my first point, businesses in negotiations for the take-over, acquisitions, mergers, or even licensing of technology, DO REQUIRE Non-disclosure Agreements, especially when the discussions involve technologies that are not public knowledge, before discussions are started. Their legal departments REQUIRE it... and they can't even open discussions about WHAT they each bring to the table without them. That is simply a fact. There is no spin here... only a business ignorant, technically oriented CEO at Kinectic... and business ignorant journalists. The SPIN is from them... not from me.

I ask you, who is considered the number 1 CEO in the world today by most of the major business analysts? The answer is Steve Jobs... not PrimeSense's Inon Beracha, who never got to square one because he refused to sign the required and normal NDA. I suggest that Jobs' method of initiating negotiations about acquiring another company, based on 30 years of doing so trumps Inon Beracha's single time experience. Beracha is an amateur, who, the facts now show, can't keep his big mouth shut. Jobs has acquired dozens... and each and every time has required NDAs.

> I did not post it because I thought the issue was twaddle... it was just a "sour grapes" article by know nothings.

Agreed, but with one other observation.

I would bet a good dinner out, that the comment about Apple being a "pain in the ass" had two motivations:

Apple's name guarantees press coverage.
If Apple's name wasn't in the headline, the business tech press would have largely ignored this item, relegating it to second or even third-tier story placement. Beracha wanted notoriety, and got it, by leveraging APPLE's name instead of his own or even Microsoft's. What a crappy, sleazy way to get headlines. Works, though.
Microsoft encouraged Beracha to shoot off his mouth.
Microsoft knows that Apple gets headlines (see #1), and is a lot smarter than Beracha, used him, and threw him aside like a wad of tissues after an afternoon tryst in a cheap motel. All to get airplay for their new toy.

Frankly, while I agree with you on the naivete and inexperience aspects, I'm more astonished and grossed out by the sleaziness of it.

Eewww. I want a shower... these kinds of people disgust me. :)