Apple Ordered to Pay Blogger Legal Fees

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday January 31, 2007 @07:07AM from the bruising-the-bottom-line dept.

inetsee writes "Apple has been ordered to pay legal fees for two web sites that reported on an in-development Apple project code named 'Asteroid'. According to the article on WebProNews, Apple was ordered by a Santa Clara County court to pay almost $700,000 in legal reimbursement to AppleInsider and PowerPage after the court agreed with the Electronic Frontier Foundation legal team that the web sites 'qualified as legitimate online news sites' engaging in trade journalism. Apple had claimed that it had a right to protect its trade secrets, but the EFF successfully argued that 'Subpoenaing journalist sources is not an acceptable means of discovery.'"

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Re:Hallelujah! by oohshiny · 2007-01-31 07:34 · Score: 0, Redundant

A lot of people have cited Microsoft wrongdoing as part of their motivation to purchase a Macintosh. As this is basically an ignorant, knee-jerk reaction given Apple's own history,

The difference between Microsoft and Apple is that Apple doesn't even come close to having a monopoly. If Apple gets, say, a 25% marketshare, that's good for all of us, no matter how evil Apple may be. And no matter what Apple does or doesn't do for open source, the fact that they use many UNIX APIs means that when Apple sells a Mac, that helps Linux more than when Microsoft sells a Vista machine.