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Judge Finds For Apple in ThinkSecret Case
An anonymous reader writes: "In a case with implications for the freedom to blog, a San Jose judge tentatively ruled Thursday that Apple Computer can force three online publishers to surrender the names of confidential sources who disclosed information about the company's upcoming products. The San Jose news piece has the most detail on the ruling while Mac Daily News has some background on the case, and Gizmodo vociferously expresses an opinion on the lawsuit. We've covered the case in the past as well.
Apple Good, Microsoft Bad,
OS X Good, Windows Bad,
PowerPC Good, Intel Bad
everybody clear on this?
Microsoft wants to infiltrate every device bigger than a toothbrush, agreed. But how much worse would it be if Apple took over? (I realize this is verging way out into hypothetical land.) In Bizzarro Apple Land, only rich, Blaupunkt-owning, BMW-driving hipsters would be allowed to compute. Your Mac could be taken away by armed fashionistas roaming the streets. Every PC would cost at least $5,000 and developers would be expected to grovel for the supreme privilege of creating apps for the One True Operating System. Businesses in non-sexy segments would be denied licenses, and instead use elaborate abaci manned by legions of idiot savants.
At least, that's what Mistress Cleo says.
Ok, I'll talk. I got a call from a guy who said his name was Steve Jobs, and he told me all this stuff. He sent me an email (see, the "From:" line says "SteveJobs@apple.com"!) with the pictures and stuff. I figured he should know, right? What? The headers say the email comes from an anonymizer in the Netherlands? Sorry, I don't know what that means.
Can You Say Linux? I Knew That You Could.
Don't think so. Apple has actually won a case.
-- Knowing too much can get you killed, but knowing who knows too much can make you rich.
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The news came as a letdown for those running ThinkSecret, but their spirits were picked up when Apple served their final notice on nice metallic gray paper, in a design that could only be called "compact, simple, elegant, and effective."
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>It scares me a lot as it could easily be abused to restrict free speach online.
you can have it back when you learn to spell it*.
*and the answer isn't "I-T"
No, you are a Slashdot Editor.
Sorry, that was cheap. Still true though...
Apple sued to subpoena. They're not trying to make the guys broke. They're just trying to find out who leaked this information so that they can find the individual(s) that broke the NDA and fire them... out of a cannon ...into the sun.
The consequence for a court giving an order violating a state law is contempt....
It takes 40+ muscles to frown, but only four to extend your arm and bitchslap the motherfucker