Let see... the company is already paying me $75-100/hour just to sit in the plane. For another $3/hr I can get work done during the flight, that I have to do and that I would otherwise have to do once I land, rather than being able to do other stuff.
Makes PERFECT sense for business traveler.
The NDA is a "confidentially " contract with whomever the company is disclosing the info to. It is not with the blog or website that that person leaks the info too.
The leaker has violated the NDA, if there was one (or possibly his terms of employment) and is liable for doing so. This is completely seperate from the freedom of the press issues raised here, and more importantly the issue of online publications being somehow different that traditional media and thus not deserving of the same rights and protections.
Apple is completely within its rights to go after the leakers, but should not be allowed to treat the blogs any different that say the New York Times.
Or for an even better comparision, contrast it against hardware design tools. Figure on spending 30-50K/designer for board guys, 50-80K for FPGA guys, and 100-150K per ASIC guy. That is assuming a reasonable amount of license sharing going on, not 1 seat of required tools per designer. On top of that you are going to pay 18% maintenance per year.
3K/seat is noise in any real design shop for a supported library or toolkit.
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Let see... the company is already paying me $75-100/hour just to sit in the plane. For another $3/hr I can get work done during the flight, that I have to do and that I would otherwise have to do once I land, rather than being able to do other stuff. Makes PERFECT sense for business traveler.
Well, my ip is 192.168.1.169.... send away
The NDA is a "confidentially " contract with whomever the company is disclosing the info to. It is not with the blog or website that that person leaks the info too. The leaker has violated the NDA, if there was one (or possibly his terms of employment) and is liable for doing so. This is completely seperate from the freedom of the press issues raised here, and more importantly the issue of online publications being somehow different that traditional media and thus not deserving of the same rights and protections. Apple is completely within its rights to go after the leakers, but should not be allowed to treat the blogs any different that say the New York Times.
Or for an even better comparision, contrast it against hardware design tools. Figure on spending 30-50K/designer for board guys, 50-80K for FPGA guys, and 100-150K per ASIC guy. That is assuming a reasonable amount of license sharing going on, not 1 seat of required tools per designer. On top of that you are going to pay 18% maintenance per year. 3K/seat is noise in any real design shop for a supported library or toolkit.