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The open sniping between Jobs and Eisner began in the summer of 2002.
喬布斯和艾斯納正式開戰是在2002年夏天。
Jobs had always admired the creative spirit of the great Walt Disney,
喬布斯一直都很欣賞沃爾特·迪士尼的創意精神，
especially because he had nurtured a company to last for generations.
主要是因為他“培育”了一家能夠沿襲幾代人的公司。
He viewed Walt's nephew Roy as an embodiment of this historic legacy and spirit.
喬布斯把沃爾特的侄子羅伊看做是這一歷史傳承和精神的化身。
Roy was still on the Disney board, despite his own growing estrangement from Eisner,
羅伊依然在迪士尼的董事會里，雖然他和艾斯納的矛盾也越來越大，
and Jobs let him know that he would not renew the Pixar-Disney deal as long as Eisner was still the CEO.
喬布斯對羅伊說，在艾斯納任職CEO期間，皮克斯不會和迪士尼續約。
Roy Disney and Stanley Gold, his close associate on the Disney board, began warning other directors about the Pixar problem.
羅伊·迪士尼和他在董事會里的一位親密同伴斯坦利·高德開始提醒其他董事關于皮克斯柜絕續約的事情。
That prompted Eisner to send the board an intemperate email in late August 2002.
這促使了艾斯納在2002年8月下旬向董事會所有成員發了一封措辭激烈的郵件。
He was confident that Pixar would eventually renew its deal, he said,
他堅信皮克斯最終會和迪士尼續約，他說，
partly because Disney had rights to the Pixar movies and characters that had been made thus far.
一部分原因是因為迪士尼擁有皮克斯迄今為止制作的電影和動畫人物的版權。
Plus, he said, Disney would be in a better negotiating position in a year, after Pixar finished Finding Nemo.
他還補充，在皮克斯制作完《海底總動員》之后，迪士尼將在談判中居于更有利的地位。
"Yesterday we saw for the second time the new Pixar movie, Finding Nemo, that comes out next May," he wrote.
他寫道：“昨天我們第二次看了皮克斯將在明年5月發布的新電影《海底總動員》。
"This will be a reality check for those guys.
這將是對皮克斯這些工作人員的真實考驗。
It's okay, but nowhere near as good as their previous films. Of course they think it is great."
這部電影雖然不錯，但是沒有他們之前的電影好。當然，他們肯定自認為很棒。”
There were two major problems with this email: It leaked to the Los Angeles Times, provoking Jobs to go ballistic,
這封郵件出現了兩個主要問題：第一，郵件透露給了《洛杉磯時報》，這讓喬布斯暴跳如雷；
and Eisner's assessment of the movie was wrong, very wrong.
第二，艾斯納預測錯了，大錯特錯。
