Friday, March 25, 2005

There is a good article today on the Apple and trade secrets issue today in the Boston Herald, "Student will teach Apple: Settle? Lawyer thinks different." Apple is suing Ciarelli, founder of the Web site ThinkSecret, insisting he reveal his sources for the story. Gross said his client was exercising his First Amendment rights as an online journalist. ``He didn't steal, he didn't break into computers,'' said Gross, who has filed motions to dismiss Apple's suit. ``Apple just wants to intimidate people and control the news.'' To me that about sums it up unfortunately. Hopefully this will get settled before this actually knocks a hole in Apple's shiny image. 5:58:10 PM    comment []