Nobody touches
Big Brother's Apple's OS until they're good and ready -- not nobody. Apparently not even Apple employees are beyond the long arm of the law, since a few Apple Retail employees have been sacked after being overheard by
the Thought Police co-workers while discussing their evil deeds, and were subsequently reported to corporate. Their crime? Downloading the WWDC edition of
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard that was handed out to developers at the recent keynote and has been
popping up on file sharing sites of late. At least five employees have been fired so far, with "dozens" more facing
electroshock therapy expulsion. When questioned about their actions, the employees fessed up to the crime, and they seemed to think Apple was in the right for giving them the boot, though they do wonder if they'd still have their jobs if they'd hadn't admitted to downloading Leopard. Guess you'll never know now, eh Honest Abe? Though you can assume with our BitTorrent habits that we wouldn't be blabbing about our
recent acquisitions in front any
Inner Party members Apple corporate types.
posted August 22nd 2006 11:41PM
Nope, I'm not stupid. I'm just making a point you
obviously didn't get. You're right, Apple does own the rights to the software. It also, obviously, has policies and rules in effect that restrict who the permissible recipients of the software are. These policies and rules clearly exclude employees of the Apple stores from being permissible recipients of the software. As a result, when those employees download the software they are no different from your "average Joe" downloader.
It's irrelevant that they own the rights to the software. The fact is, there is a reason why they give that software to the people they do. And if you're not on that list of approved recipients, Apple doesn't want you to have it. The only difference between an employee and anyone else is that Apple has control over their employees. You're right that Apple can choose who to enforce their rights on, but when they use that choice to treat their own differently than the public, they become hypocritical.
If this hypothetical situation happened, Apple would be preaching that they don't want unapproved people to download their software, but at the same time would be looking the other way when it's one of their own who downloads it. This is the very essence of hypocracy.
I'll now refer you to your first question in your post.
hmm... have any of you people even pondered the thought that maybe Apple only fired them to GET ANOTHER STORY ON SITES LIKE ENGADGET??? It all seems to me like just some PR scheme... because remember... there's no such thing as bad advertising...
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