Gil took over as CEO two years after the Copeland project began under Michael Spindler, and turned it around enough to ship Mac OS 8 a few weeks after he was ou

Gil took over as CEO two years after the Copeland project began under Michael Spindler, and turned it around enough to ship Mac OS 8 a few weeks after he was ousted by the board (after Jobs broke a gentleman's agreement he had with Amelio and sold his 1.5M shares, tanking the share price). Gil Amelio was not a great CEO by any measure, but he deserves credit for helping save Apple. He uttered the first "no". "No", we are not going to ship this Copeland thing, it's hopeless, we either have to buy another OS and build from that, or sell the company because we're out of time.