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What made the request all the more astonishing to Eisenstat was that it was Jobs who, just a year earlier,
更令艾森斯塔特驚訝的地方在于，就在一年前，
had forced frogdesign to abandon its work on Wozniak's remote control device.
喬布斯本人就曾強迫青蛙設計公司放棄沃茲尼亞克遙控裝置的項目。
Jobs realized that in order to work with Esslinger (and for a variety of other reasons),
喬布斯意識到，為了同艾斯林格合作（以及各種其他原因），
it would be necessary to resolve the lawsuit that Apple had filed. Fortunately Sculley was willing.
必須解決蘋果公司的訴訟。幸運的是，斯卡利愿意考慮撤銷訴訟。
In January 1986 they reached an out-of-court agreement involving no financial damages.
1986年1月，他們達成庭外和解，不涉及經濟損失。
In return for Apple's dropping its suit, NeXT agreed to a variety of restrictions:
為了回報蘋果公司放棄訴訟，NeXT公司同意了種種限制條款：
Its product would be marketed as a high-end workstation,
其產品將作為高端智能終端
it would be sold directly to colleges and universities, and it would not ship before March 1987.
直接銷售給髙校，而且NeXT公司不能在1987年3月之前推出產品。
Apple also insisted that the NeXT machine "not use an operating system compatible with the Macintosh,"
蘋果公司還堅持，NeXT的機器“不能使用與麥金塔兼容的操作系統”。
though it could be argued that Apple would have been better served by insisting on just the opposite.
后來的情況表明，如果當時蘋果公司的要求剛好相反，會對自身更為有利。
After the settlement Jobs continued to court Esslinger until the designer decided to wind down his contract with Apple.
訴訟解決后，喬布斯繼續游說艾斯林格，直到這位設計師決定終止與蘋果公司的合同。
That allowed frogdesign to work with NeXT at the end of 1986.
1986年底，青蛙設計公司終于能夠同NeXT合作了。
Esslinger insisted on having free rein, just as Paul Rand had.
艾斯林格堅持完全的自由，就像保羅·蘭德一樣。
"Sometimes you have to use a big stick with Steve," he said.
“有時候，你必須對史蒂夫采用大棒政策。”他表示。
Like Rand, Esslinger was an artist, so Jobs was willing to grant him indulgences he denied other mortals.
和蘭德一樣，艾斯林格是一位藝術家，所以喬布斯也愿意放任他自由設計，其他人可享受不到這種待遇。
