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Apple Claims Ownership of Shareware
(54)T-Dub writes "Cricket Media recently released 'Netflix Fanatic', an OSX based shareware app that lets you manage your rental queue without logging on to Netflix. An article on Think Secret reveals the reason behind it's mysterious disappearance. Apparently the developer's employer, Apple, has claimed ownership over the application's name and source code. The developer claims that under Section 2870 of the California Labor Code this is illegal. The law states that if a company has an employment agreement with provisions saying employees must assign the rights of their inventions to their employer, those sections do not apply if the employee developed it on his or her own time, without using the employer's equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information. Within Apple, there's unsubstantiated speculation that Apple wants to include the Netflix Fanatic code in a new version of Sherlock." Also, they're presumably not too worried with employee morale.
they'll claim they own FreeBSD and Mach...
yeah, the Apple fanatics are just as bad, if not worse, than the Linux cocksuckers...
No, you're actually a fucking idiot.
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That was classic intercourse!
Well, they could look for someone using the term "psudoname" instead of the correct pseudonym. I hope your software isn't riddled with blatant misspellings.
I've been telling you all that Apple sucks and do you believe me? No! "Oh, they make such pretty computers! Let me go take out a second mortgage on my house so I can afford a Mac that's got a quarter of the megahertz of a $600 PC from Wal*Mart!" Remember, any asshole can be an artist, but the only way to be a true artiste is to be a Mac fag. "The Apple Newton rules!" Yeah, I know - handwriting recognition. Now go away.
I will not be buying any Apple hardware or software you fucking cocksuckers. You can take that IPod and IRamItUpYourAss. OS X can OSuck my dick. I will take a G4 PowerDump on your PowerBook. QuickTime can QuickBlowMe. iTunes, more like shiteTunes. Expose? I'll Expose my fucking nuts to your chin.
I will be using Linux, XFree86, and Gnome. You Apple cocksuckers can keep taking it up the ass from Panther, or whatever new animal you like bestial anal sex with.
Apple is just another company that wishes they were Microsoft, so they can ass-ream you repeatedly with ease. If they had the market share that Microsoft had, they would be ass-fucking you harder and faster than Microsoft is. They already have a small group of willing fags that let them do this to them already. But its not enough. What they want is the whole world to be forced to bend over and take a huge titanium iCock up their rectums.
If you liked licking my balls, add me to your foes list!
Yeah, the dude you responded to is really named "Oakey". You're a retard. Posting logged in != not using an alias. You're a dumass.
And who are you?
That was classic intercourse!
Well, as I have said for years (and to deaf ears in the community), Apple is just as bad as any other major corporation in the software business.
Let's do an experiment!
Substitute Apple with Microsoft and we'll see how many people would be screaming then!. Just because the company is called Apple and is viewed as something like a saint in the community, people go out on a limb to make up excuses for them. Wake up! Just because theire boxes are considered sexy, doesn't make them A-OK. I will never ever own a product from such a monopolistic company as Apple.
If you mod me down, I *will* introduce you to my sister!