As a tech support guy in 1998, my company supported software made by company X. One thing I had to do periodically was "decrypt" (glorified rot-13, really) company X licenses to see what customer they were assigned to. It turns out that company X's licenses were designed by someone who had long since quit, and they had lost the code to do that. Their CEO told my CEO they wanted to buy the script I wrote. When my CEO asked me what I wanted for it, I said, "I dunno, would they give me a keg of beer?" Their CEO flew out and bought me a keg of beer.
Executives at FB, Google, Intel, Apple and Adobe illegally colluded to drive down their employees' salaries. No punishments, no boycotts, no indignant calls for resignation. Donating to Prop 8 was crumby but it is not even in the same league.
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As a tech support guy in 1998, my company supported software made by company X. One thing I had to do periodically was "decrypt" (glorified rot-13, really) company X licenses to see what customer they were assigned to. It turns out that company X's licenses were designed by someone who had long since quit, and they had lost the code to do that. Their CEO told my CEO they wanted to buy the script I wrote. When my CEO asked me what I wanted for it, I said, "I dunno, would they give me a keg of beer?" Their CEO flew out and bought me a keg of beer.
Here ya go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H... Spoiler: they settled with the DOJ and promised to never, ever do it again, no one was punished.
Executives at FB, Google, Intel, Apple and Adobe illegally colluded to drive down their employees' salaries. No punishments, no boycotts, no indignant calls for resignation. Donating to Prop 8 was crumby but it is not even in the same league.