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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?""
Does anyone else find it odd that an Apple employee is downloading their own product? Unless, of course, they work at an Apple store or something. Besides, Leopard doesn't seem all that different from the previous version...
Well, the punishment should fit the crime. (crudely paraphrasing Deuteronomy 19:19 and the US Constitution:A-8)
As to Apple, the whole company has been turning into shit since introducing CD keys for home OSX installs 2 years ago. Just you wait until they come up with Macintosh Authentic Benefit.
Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
And I had thought proprietary software was all kittens and ice-cream cones. They should have downloaded GNOME.
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. It's a Mac clone from Umax in case you're wondering. It came with media that definitely has authentic CD Keys and you have to register within a 30 day period. There is also a note in the CD sleeve that says, "Non-transferrable. This CD Key is associated with the MAC address of the ethernet card in this machine. Any attempt to circumnavigate these features will result in sever action to the fullest extent of the law. - Apple Legal Team 2006" So I think you're all wet.
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
The only thing wet is your mom's pussy when I give her a creampie.
who cares about apple anyway? all their technology is crap and there is something better for everything they make.
Sorry but i think you people dont know what your talking about. The thing is whocares if they came clean with it the problem is that they got canned for downloading a competitive OS. if you work for budweiser and came into work holding a labatt blue hmm what do you think is gonna happen YOUR GONNA GET CANNED. I think they knew apple wouldnt have liked it. and besides that who knows exactly what was said in closed doors when they were reviewing each person or what there excuse was for downloading the OS