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IBM sent to Palo Alto a 125-page contract. Jobs tossed it down without reading it.
IBM給NeXT發送了一份125頁的合同。喬布斯讀都沒讀就扔掉了。
"You don't get it," he said as he walked out of the room.
“別來這一套。”他邊說邊走出辦公室。
He demanded a simpler contract of only a few pages, which he got within a week.
他要一份只有幾頁的合同，不到一周，他所要求的合同就送到了。
Jobs wanted to keep the arrangement secret from Bill Gates until the big unveiling of the NeXT computer, scheduled for October.
喬布斯希望直到10月份NeXT電腦隆重推出之前，都不讓比爾·蓋茨知道他與IBM的合作。
But IBM insisted on being forthcoming. Gates was furious.
但是，IBM堅持立即宣布。蓋茨得知后怒不可遏。
He realized this could wean IBM off its dependence on Microsoft operating systems.
他很清楚，這可能會讓IBM失去對微軟操作系統的依賴。
"NeXTSTEP isn't compatible with anything," he raged to IBM executives.
“NeXTSTEP和任何東西都不兼容。”他憤怒地對IBM的高管說。
At first Jobs seemed to have pulled off Gates's worst nightmare.
起初，喬布斯似乎成了蓋茨最可怕的噩夢。
Other computer makers that were beholden to Microsoft's operating systems,
其他依賴于微軟操作系統的電腦制造商也找到喬布斯，
most notably Compaq and Dell, came to ask Jobs for the right to clone NeXT and license NeXTSTEP.
讓其授權復制NeXT和使用NeXTSTEP，其中最著名的是康柏公司和戴爾公司。
There were even offers to pay a lot more if NeXT would get out of the hardware business altogether.
甚至有公司表示如果NeXT放棄硬件業務，愿意付更高的價錢。
That was too much for Jobs, at least for the time being. He cut off the clone discussions.
這對喬布斯來說太多了，至少在當時是。他停止了復制NeXT的討論，
And he began to cool toward IBM. The chill became reciprocal.
對IBM的態度也開始冷淡，這慢慢發展為相互的冷淡。
When the person who made the deal at IBM moved on, Jobs went to Armonk to meet his replacement, Jim Cannavino.
當IBM發起該項合作的人離職后，喬布斯來到阿蒙克會見其繼任者吉姆·坎納維諾。
They cleared the room and talked one-on-one.
兩人進行了一對一的談話。
Jobs demanded more money to keep the relationship going and to license newer versions of NeXTSTEP to IBM.
喬布斯提出，IBM需要支付更多的錢才能繼續雙方的合作并得到NeXTSTEP更新版本的授權。
Cannavino made no commitments, and he subsequently stopped returning Jobs's phone calls. The deal lapsed.
坎納維諾沒有作出任何承諾，他隨后也拒絕回復喬布斯的來電。于是，之前的合同中止了。
NeXT got a bit of money for a licensing fee, but it never got the chance to change the world.
NeXT公司得到了一筆授權費，但始終沒有得到改變世界的機會。
