Comments on: Private Apples http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/2771.html Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago boys including those pictured above. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:06:26 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: MisterBixby http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/2771.html/comment-page-1#comment-9107 MisterBixby Fri, 14 Jan 2005 03:29:41 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/002771.php#comment-9107 I hope your servers are ready for an Instalanche. I hope your servers are ready for an Instalanche.

]]> By: scarhill http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/2771.html/comment-page-1#comment-9106 scarhill Fri, 14 Jan 2005 02:22:15 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/002771.php#comment-9106 To defend Glenn a bit here, he has pretty consistently expressed the opinion that while bloggers should have the same privilege as other journalists, he is uncomfortable with journalists having special privileges at all. <a href='http://instapundit.com/archives/018446.php' rel="nofollow"> Here</a> <a href='http://instapundit.com/archives/019677.php' rel="nofollow">are</a> <a href='http://instapundit.com/archives/019706.php' rel="nofollow">several</a> posts where he discussed the issue prior to the Apple case. So as long as you thing that MacWorld or Wired could and would have been subpoenaed for publishing the same information, I don't think you and he disagree all that much. Jim To defend Glenn a bit here, he has pretty consistently expressed the opinion that while bloggers should have the same privilege as other journalists, he is uncomfortable with journalists having special privileges at all.

Here are several posts where he discussed the issue prior to the Apple case.

So as long as you thing that MacWorld or Wired could and would have been subpoenaed for publishing the same information, I don’t think you and he disagree all that much.

Jim

]]> By: Ronald Coleman http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/2771.html/comment-page-1#comment-9105 Ronald Coleman Fri, 14 Jan 2005 01:53:37 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/002771.php#comment-9105 Agreed. If you like, see my similar comments at <a href="http://likelihoodofconfusion.blogspot.com/2005/01/one-bloggin-apple-dont-spoil-whole.html" rel="nofollow">this post</a>. Agreed. If you like, see my similar comments at this post.

]]> By: Richard Heddleson http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/2771.html/comment-page-1#comment-9104 Richard Heddleson Fri, 14 Jan 2005 00:47:07 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/002771.php#comment-9104 Thank you Shannon. I thought Professor Reynolds'comments cavalier as I am sure the advice he would give Apple were it his client would lead it to take much the same action as it has. It looks like bullying and in a sense it is given the disparity in size of the litigants. But none the less, Apple is doing the correct thing from both a business and legal perspective in spite of the negative publicity. Thank you Shannon. I thought Professor Reynolds’comments cavalier as I am sure the advice he would give Apple were it his client would lead it to take much the same action as it has. It looks like bullying and in a sense it is given the disparity in size of the litigants. But none the less, Apple is doing the correct thing from both a business and legal perspective in spite of the negative publicity.

]]> By: Craig R. Harmon http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/2771.html/comment-page-1#comment-9103 Craig R. Harmon Fri, 14 Jan 2005 00:43:04 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/002771.php#comment-9103 I agree and wrote the following to Glen Reynolds in an email. "I don't like the concept of journalists, let alone bloggers, protecting anonymous sources, at least not in every instance. Here we have a person or persons who have divulged trade secrets and the company has no remedy. It is not as though I-Macs have a tendency to blow up in its users faces and a whistle-blower has leaked information that Apple internal memos prove that the company has known of such problems for years. Such whistle-blowers, providing information that would benefit society by permitting society a remedy from Apple for harm which Apple knowingly perpetrated against society, deserve to be protected. In that case, society would benefits from protecting whistle-blowers because other whistle-blowers would feel safe to do likewise in the future. In this case, on the other hand, it is the corporation that has been harmed while providing society no consequential benefit. In my opinion, the leaker(s) deserve no protection. Just my non-lawyerly opinion." As for disclosure, I once owned an Apple EII and once a Power Mac. That's as close as I come to having ties to the Apple Corp. I agree and wrote the following to Glen Reynolds in an email.

“I don’t like the concept of journalists, let alone bloggers, protecting anonymous sources, at least not in every instance.

Here we have a person or persons who have divulged trade secrets and the company has no remedy. It is not as though I-Macs have a tendency to blow up in its users faces and a whistle-blower has leaked information that Apple internal memos prove that the company has known of such problems for years.

Such whistle-blowers, providing information that would benefit society by permitting society a remedy from Apple for harm which Apple knowingly perpetrated against society, deserve to be protected. In that case, society would benefits from protecting whistle-blowers because other whistle-blowers would feel safe to do likewise in the future.

In this case, on the other hand, it is the corporation that has been harmed while providing society no consequential benefit. In my opinion, the leaker(s) deserve no protection.

Just my non-lawyerly opinion.”

As for disclosure, I once owned an Apple EII and once a Power Mac. That’s as close as I come to having ties to the Apple Corp.

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