Apple strikes again, lawsuit imminent

[flipnap]

dont you mean, Juan Gutierrez strikes again?

[arvid]

that fruity company is starting to grasp the concept of an 'evil worldwide corporation' .. no respect

[Pedro]

Never understood Apple fans. Apple is just like Microsoft, except not as successful.

[UrbanFuturistic]

Because, of course, breach of contract and dissemination of trade secrets would be perfectly acceptable to any other company, just not the big bad Apple.

Tell you what, if Apple sues someone for patent infringement, are you gonna badmouth them for that too?

While I know Apple are hardly a saintly company, this does smell much too much like a witch burning comitee.

regards, Paul

[Saurus]

Originally posted by odubtaig
While I know Apple are hardly a saintly company, this does smell much too much like a witch burning comitee.



Ever open a Mac magazine...constant windows witch burning.

[Array]

well no, I'm not saying that Apple is not unjustifiably angry, rather that Apple is too liberal in the dispensing of lawsuits.

[beaker]

>>well no, I'm not saying that Apple is not unjustifiably angry, rather that Apple is too liberal in the dispensing of lawsuits.

That's lame dude. I don't know of any company that would not sue for people leaking information. It happens everywhere, apple is not alone in this.

Lets make it a little closer to home so you might be able to relate more. Just hypothetically speaking, lets say you worked on cgi for a movie and you leaked a bunch of footage to the web(or the entire movie). Do really expect the fox or disney or viacom to just give you a slap on the wrist and say "Don't do that again". No, I expect them to sue your ass off because you signed an NDA and you ignored that and gave out the information anyways. NDA contracts are not made just for the fun of it. What's the point of having them if everyone is just going to leak the information anyways?

[Array]

this sort of stuff happens ALL the time though. I saw some special report on techTV about some guy who left Intel to start his own business. To no one's surprise Intel sued his ass for trade secret infringement (sounds familiar right? :beer: ) Anyhow, the guy actually fought the charges, and WON the case. It turned out he did not steal any trade secrets while working on his chip which would compete with Intel. Sad thing is, the trial took THREE YEARS and the guy ended up with no product. :thumbsdow So it's not ALLWAYS justifiable *apple* *cough* *larry gritz* *weeze*

[UrbanFuturistic]

While that Intel case and the 'Patent Infringement' case against Exluna may have been unjustified, this case is and I think it's important to keep things in perspective. Much as I hate certain companies I still try to keep my criticism to where their actions are actually unjustified.

Asides from this, I don't really care what Macintosh magazines may or may not be saying, or whether they could be accused of witchburning when it comes to their criticism of certain companies. Two wrongs do not a right make.

regards, Paul

P.S. Asides from anything else, if you're gonna criticise Apple for their legitimate as well as illegitemate business practices, it undermines your argument.

[playmesumch00ns]

Originally posted by odubtaig
P.S. Asides from anything else, if you're gonna criticise Apple for their legitimate as well as illegitemate business practices, it undermines your argument.

And I suppose because it's a 'legitimate' business practice, that makes it perfectly alright and any criticism of it an 'invalid argument'. Being from England, I find the whole 'claim-culture' (as it's now been catchphrased over here) mildly amusing, I just hope no jumped-up little moron ever tries to sue me. Honestly, in the old days people used to get their revenge in so much more interesting ways. It's a sad reflection of our times when the best way of hurting someone is in their pocket.

[red_oddity]

First off, i don't like big corporate companies that just sue anyone for the tiniest thing, BUT:

Apple this time has every right to sue this person, the guy has probably signed a contract that whatever goes on inside a company stays within the company (like anyone who ever worked for Apple, even if it's commercials or what not, or any other big company), heck, i even signed a contract that says that i owe Audi $100.000(or euros) should i ever mouth off or leak whatever products we do the communications and commercials for over here.

So, the guy should have kept his mouth shut and NEVER posted stuff like that, it just happened to be Apple this time and we all like to pick on this company (as it is slowly turning into a company like Microsoft (dont flame me for this) in its way of working (all big companies work like this, like it or not))

My two cents.

[Meshbuilder]

"Never understood Apple fans. Apple is just like Microsoft, except not as successful."

You are right, the only difference is that mac users often like Apple´s products unlike most PC users and MS products.

[Lee3dee]

Apple and MicroShaft, are all the same when it comes to it rights as a company. I understand that NDA agreement in most companies is strict, but sueing is above and beyond. If we all sued MS, for releasing 5 different windows softwares, that all contained a backdoor that hackers could take control of your OS via the internet, thats been in the code since win95, then MS would be long gone by now.

Just imaging if Xerox has gone with the design on the GUI interface, we'd all be using xerox machines, and Bill and Steve would probably be working at McDonalds!

[arvid]

or Workbench 2000 on Amigas :p

btw, didnt you mean crApple? ;)

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