Why would he do that? This makes no sense to me. Why not take the options and just give to money to charity rather than let it lapse? I don't believe taking

Why would he do that? This makes no sense to me. Why not take the options and just give to money to charity rather than let it lapse? I don't believe taking the options would impact Apple much, just add a (minor) dilution to existing shareholders who would never begrudge this being done for Jobs. Even if he doesn't care for the money I'd have thought he'd see the positives of becoming a large philanthropist.