I'm sure plenty of people exercised their Apple options recently, including other Apple employees past and present.

Bertrand Serlet, the Frenchman who played a critical role in creating Mac OS X [...]

Why in hell does it matter that he's French?

I look forward to being told the nationalities of all personalities involved in future MacNN stories.

Well, I'm sure he's happy, though, that OS X on a whole isn't open source, thus driving Apple out of the OS business and thus him out of a job AND making his stock options worthless.

If the options were granted last year wouldn't that be pre-split options? I mean, the 15 share price MacNN quotes was before the stock ran up, then split, then ran up again. Pre-split pricing would be $100 or more a share.

if he'd like to adopt me as his stepbrother.

Seriously, this guy has done well out of his options - but do we think he's done any better than Avie, who I seem to remember is now seriously wealthy from his options.

Good luck to all of them: I've got a great OS and some fabulous hardware to play with, I don't care how much they get from stock options as it's not really my money.

"Bertrand Serlet, the Frenchman who played a critical role in creating Mac OS X"

I must have a hole in my brain. I've been closely following ALL of Apple's "next-gen OS plans" since before Copeland, through Rhapsody and even PURCHASED the OS X beta (and every release since).

During this whole time, I never remember hearing this chap's name in a discussion. Not once.

Here's the guy's bio from Apple: http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/serlet.html

From more googling on the subject, it does look like he's been around....PARC, NeXT, Apple...but all the press is PR boilerplate.

I don't intend this to sound like criticism of this man or his accomplishments, but for MACNN to make a casure reference to "Bertrand Serlet" as if he was Dr. Suess or Steve Jobs (i.e. famous) seems a little absurd even to me.