RSSApple Settles With Source of Tiger Leak
By Nate Mook | Published March 24, 2005, 11:40 AM
While it continues to pursue lawsuits against those who leaked information on its upcoming products, Apple has settled one suit with an individual who leaked a pre-release copy of "Tiger," the next release of Mac OS X. Apple sued Doug Steigerwald, a student, in late December for sharing the beta code.
Steigerwald will pay an undisclosed sum of money to Apple, but is still under investigation by the federal government for his actions. "Although I did not mean to do any harm, I realize now that my actions were wrong and that what I did caused substantial harm to Apple and for that I am truly sorry," Steigerwald said in a prepared statement.
They had it coming sooner or later.. People do it all the time.. I don't see why anyone would want anything from Apple anyways.. throw it in the trashcan.. geez
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He was trusted with beta information, was in a contract to keep a closed lip about it, and he still released it. I agree with a few comments about it not being the end of the world, but he did violate his contract with Apple. Personally, I think Apple should just go and die off. However, Microsoft and Unix would all be equally as irked if somebody in their beta groups did the same thing...and with just cause. Hackers nearly killed Half-Life 2 (which seemed a lot like a stalling tactic to me..), but it still shouldn't have happened. Now somebody *inside* the company is leaking the info (if you are a beta tester, you are considered a compensated-non-paid employee). Tell me...do you really want nobody to trust you or want to hire you ever again? How much stupidity do you have to display before you decide to hit the brick wall and come to your senses? Just watch, Steigerwald will probably end up as a Linux user that halls trash for a living because nobody else will trust him with anything *important*.
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What harm was done? it's not like Apple has any competitors in the Mac world for operating systems (where in IBM PC and compatibles we have many choices *ms windows, linux, os/2 etc)
wooo a leak... batten down the hatches because we all know that there are soooo many other alternative operating systems out there for the Mac platform...
from what I recall, at one time there WAS BeOS but they wenbt belly up... so who is competing? :)
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Another proprietary based, sue-happy company beats up on the very same people who've made them rich beyond their wildest dreams. Good going Apple! You couldn't have done it without us.
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hmm, look at all this media coverage, which = free advertisement that apple got from you. Sometimes I wonder if these are fake just for the media coverage.
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