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Apple Fires Five Employees for Downloading Leopard

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the never-tell-on-yourself dept.

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?""

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  1. Re:DreamWorks Comparison by cunina · · Score: 5, Funny

    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."

  2. Re:Is that the kind of person apple wants? by Crimsane · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.