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?""

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modded offtopic, but true

[jpardey]

See this. Apparently a recent Ubuntu upgrade screwed up the X server. Aren't I glad I don't bother installing updates! (Actually, I just use the computer as a synthesiser, and don't use one of the ubuntuized desktop enviroments, so I have to manually grab updates)

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[thegrassyknowl]

It is all about making sure your actions don't get the company sued, and if they do get sued, making sure they have lots of CYA to keep from losing in court and having to pay out mucho moola.

Funny that - this paragraph reminded me of those crappy email "disclaimers" that basically say:

This email represents the opinion of the employee and this opinion is not representative of that of the company. This email probably won't blow up your country, but if it does it's not our fault, yadda yadda yadda

And then the company getting sued because of something written in some email. The company then tries to sue the employee because the email must have been his/her personal opinion. I simply refuse to put that "disclaimer" into my emails. I think it's wanky, and it has questionable enforcability given that it's at the bottom of the email that you have to first open (good way to get a virus if you happen to run outlook) then read all of to get to the disclaimer. Fucking stupid corporate morons.