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When a new version of the Mac operating system shipped in July 1997, weeks after he had helped oust Amelio,
1997年7月，就在他協(xié)助解聘阿梅里奧幾個星期后，新版的Mac操作系統(tǒng)發(fā)布，
Jobs did not allow the clone makers to upgrade to it.
喬布斯不允許兼容機制造商升級到新系統(tǒng)。
The head of Power Computing, Stephen "King" Kahng, organized pro-cloning protests when Jobs appeared at Boston Macworld that August
8月，當喬布斯出現(xiàn)在波士頓Macworld大會現(xiàn)場時，Power Computing公司總裁斯蒂芬·“國王”·卡恩組織了支持兼容機的抗議活動，
and publicly warned that the Macintosh OS would die if Jobs declined to keep licensing it out.
并公開警告說，如果喬布斯不繼續(xù)授權(quán)，麥金塔操作系統(tǒng)只有死路一條。
"If the platform goes closed, it is over," Kahng said. "Total destruction. Closed is the kiss of death."
“如果平臺關(guān)閉，這個系統(tǒng)就完了，”卡恩說，“徹底毀滅。這是死亡之吻。”
Jobs disagreed. He telephoned Ed Woolard to say he was getting Apple out of the licensing business.
喬布斯不這么認為。他給伍拉德打電話，說他要把蘋果從授權(quán)業(yè)務(wù)中解脫出來。
The board acquiesced, and in September he reached a deal
董事會默許了這個決議，9月他就跟Power Computing公司達成協(xié)議，
to pay Power Computing $100 million to relinquish its license and give Apple access to its database of customers.
付給對方1億美元收回授權(quán)，而蘋果可以使用對方的用戶數(shù)據(jù)庫。
He soon terminated the licenses of the other cloners as well.
很快他也終止了對其他兼容機制造商的授權(quán)。
"It was the dumbest thing in the world to let companies making crappier hardware use our operating system and cut into our sales," he later said.
“讓其他公司在垃圾一樣的硬件上使用我們的操作系統(tǒng)、蠶食我們的銷售額，這筒直是世界上最愚蠢的事情。”他后來說。
