You don't appear to understand how companies are valued. And, you haven't stated what NeXT should have been worth and provided the evidence to back up your claim. You've only stated Apple paid too much. History shows they didn't. You claim that's 20/20 hindsight - but you bring nothing to the table other than an assertion that they paid too much.

Meanwhile, I don't need to read books - I was there. You have someone who was an eyewitness account at the time, deeply involved in software development and the developer community at a national level - and you cast it away as "feelings."

Sorry, you're an idiot.