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Woz, Others Ask Apple To Go Easy On Tiger Leak

Posted by timothy on from the pr-opportunity-if-ever-one-was dept.

tabkey12 writes "Drunkenbatman posts this impressive article with a pointed quote from Apple co-creator Steve Wozniak and 24 others from all parts of the Apple Software world, criticising Apple's stance against a 23-year-old pre-med student, desicanuk, who distributed a pre-release Tiger build over a popular Mac Bittorrent site. There's also an interview with desicanuk on drunkenbatman's site. (Original Slashdot article here.)"

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  1. Re:What's his defense? by gowen · · Score: 5, Interesting
    he's a kid, please feel sorry for him.
    He's 23, for God's sake. He's not a kid, he's an adult.

    And given that he *must* have been aware of the
    i) illegality
    ii) traceability
    of his leaks, he's a particularly stupid adult.

    Spare your sympathy for people who deserve it.
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  2. Undisclosed Sum by wren337 · · Score: 5, Interesting


    This would be a great place to see them settle for an "undisclosed sum" (like a dollar), on condition that neither party discuss the matter further. Everyone wins; Apple doesn't publicly "back down", and the guy gets his life back.

    Or they could grind his bones to make their bread, whatever. I don't know him.

  3. Re:Woz is too much of an idealist by gl4ss · · Score: 4, Interesting

    yes, but that's not the point, the point is that if you continue doing this kind of shit then people will see straight through your companys intentions and when your company is largely dependandt on very zealous fans that buy anything you make because it is from you it's a bad thing to piss them off.

    and then you have a company kick started on money made from making (_black_ hat)hacking tools for the phone system suing some kid that just posts things that people email to him- obviously if they had some values once about freedom to do things they don't have them now.

    like, hello, wtf? if that's not spineless from a company that's trying to act 'better' than the competition then what is..

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  4. Re:Woz is too much of an idealist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    People are not fans of Apple because Jobs is a nice guy. He's not. He's infamous for his absurdly hot temper.

    People are not fans of Apple because they are warm and fuzzy towards those who they see as a threat to their interests. They're not. This goes all the way back to the Apple ][ and the lawsuits over the Frankline computers which were designed to mimic them.

    People are fans of Apple because they keep cranking out impressive innovations to the way humans and computers interact, and when at their best, sell really spiffy hardware that takes advantage of these innovations.

    As long as they do that, most of us are fine with them being asshats.