Apple Fires Five Employees for Downloading Leopard

BuzzardsBay writes "The good folks at VARBusiness are quoting a ThinkSecret report that claims five Apple employees got canned over the unauthorized downloading of the Leopard OS. According to the article: one of the employees says: "Because we had the character to tell the truth and to face the consequences of our actions, we were terminated. If we all lied and denied it would we still be working at Apple today? Even more so, is that the kind of person that Apple wants working for them?""

Comments

who is suprised by this?

[spacerodent]

Honestly who is suprised by this? Dur they would have fired you. Back when you interveiwed for min wage jobs and they asked you, "is it ever 'ok' to steal from a company you work for?" ... heres a hint.. DON'T SAY YES!

Re:DreamWorks Comparison

[cunina]

Would Dreamworks have fired office staff if they had been talking about downloading a hot new Dreamworks movie via BitTorrent like "Over the Hedge"?

I'd fire anyone at any company for watching "Over the Hedge."

Re:Is that the kind of person apple wants?

[Guido del Confuso]

Oh yeah? Well what the hell is this that I'm staring at? I bought a Umax Core Duo 7500 with Mac OS X from eBay just last week.

Well, based on the fact that there is no such thing as a "Umax Core Duo 7500", I would guess that you're likely staring at an empty crack pipe.

Re:Is that the kind of person apple wants?

[Crimsane]

Eh? I never had to use a cd key for any of my Tiger installs. Methinks you are talking about Server, not client.

The torrent was probably mislabeled.

Reminds me of a joke

[Moraelin]

Reminds me of a joke that went somewhat like this:

A businessman was teaching his son about ethics and the ethical dillemas in busines, "Let me give you a practical example, son. See, there's this old friend and business associate of mine, whom I loaned some money to last year. So yesterday he came around and gave me my money back. When I counted the money, I noticed that two banknotes were stuck together, and he had given me a hundred dollars more than he owed me. Which, of course, raised the ethical problem: should I tell your mom too about the extra money, or not?"