Woz, Others Ask Apple To Go Easy On Tiger Leak

tabkey12 writes "Drunkenbatman posts this impressive article with a pointed quote from Apple co-creator Steve Wozniak and 24 others from all parts of the Apple Software world, criticising Apple's stance against a 23-year-old pre-med student, desicanuk, who distributed a pre-release Tiger build over a popular Mac Bittorrent site. There's also an interview with desicanuk on drunkenbatman's site. (Original Slashdot article here.)"

Credibility

[Odo]

Posted by "Drunkenbatman". On "drunkenblog.com". Defending "desicanuk". Quotes people from "Delicious Monster", "DaringFireball" and "Unsanity". Submitted to "slashdot.org" by "tabkey12".

Two questions:

1. How do we expect to be taken seriously with pseudonyms like this?
2. How many /.ers didn't even blink while reading the intro?

Of course look who's talking; Odo, a fictional shapeshifter... <sigh>

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Nah - Let the case continue

[the_Bionic_lemming]

I say Jobs should take this to court.

It'll give me lots of jabs to toss at a guy I work with who is as firmly entrenched as a Mac dude as I am a PC dude.

Heck, I hear about it when Gates and Microsoft do stupid stuff , so why not give me some more ammunition as Jobs gets laughed out of court? It's got all the delicious points - A kid running a web site sued out of existance over disclosing something that ultimately proved to be a mountain out of a molehill. :)

The question remains:

[earthbound kid]

Who is DrunkenBatman?

Some have speculated that DrunkenBatman is DrunkenBruceWayne, a theory I too once believed. However, after I publicly aired my suspicions, he and I were kidnapped by the DrunkenPenguin then saved by DrunkenBatman. So I've seen DrunkenBruceWayne and DrunkenBatman, together. ...However, I should note, where was DrunkenRobin during all this? Just hanging around the DrunkenBatcave? We can only drunkenly speculate, I guess.

Re:penalty?

[Jim_Callahan]

On the other hand, he's pre-med. Shoplifting is a bad move when the strength of your career rests on your ability to keep oaths about confidentiality and professionalism.

He should probably change his major. Literature, perhaps. Lots of nice jobs that require no integrity that a lit major can get.

Re:Credibility

[Anonymous Coward]

2. How many /.ers didn't even blink while reading the intro?

What? You mean we're supposed to read the whole thing?

Re:Woz is too much of an idealist

[Anonymous Coward]

Damn, I wish I could end up in the kind of soup that Jobs ended up in with NeXT. A $400 Million buy-out which led to a boardroom coup opportunity in which he regained control of his old multi-billion-dollar company!

Please Lord, let me make a few mistakes like that!

Re:Woz is too much of an idealist

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, that hockey puck mouse is BY FAR the greatest innovation in computer history. It even has bi-directional force feedback when I throw the fucker against the wall.

Re:Woz is too much of an idealist

[Anonymous Coward]

To us ACs, anyone with enough cash to buy a chicken sandwich for lunch is a billionaire.

Re: Federated Usable...

[sczimme]

Not every business needs to have a respectable name like "Federated Usable Computational Devices, Inc."

So the company would basically be FUCD?

:-)

Re:Pre-Med

[Anonymous Coward]

What I find really odd is the number of developers that DrunkenBatman [drunkenblog.com] has got coming out in support of Desicanuk. Quite useful though -- I now know whose software I can safely neglect to pay for.

So Compu-Global-Hyper-Meganet is out?

[Blaede]

Man I thought that would be one sweet and respectable name for an ISP

Re:Nausea: The Great Equaliser?

[jcenters]

Bottom line: he should have known better, but Apple shouldn't be giving themselves bad press by continuing. They probably won't now after outcries like this, preferring to show some teeth to discourage potential "innocent" uploaders leaking more stuff, then back off to act as a "Benevolent" corporate entity.

Maybe their strategy is to team up with Woz for a good-cop / bad-cop thing. Sort of like this:

Jobs: You damn kid! That'll be the last time you steal my software!

Jobs charges at the kid, then Woz grabs him, struggling to hold him back.

Kid: I'm sorry Mr. Jobs. It's just that Tiger looked so shiny and delicious! I couldn't help myself!

Jobs: *growls*, bites at the kid, still held back by Woz's muscular arms

Kid: *cries* I'll never do it again!

Woz: You better run, kid. I can't hold him for much longer.

Kid runs away screaming, Jobs and Woz burst into laughter and high-fives.

Jobs: That was fun, let's go grab a cappuccino.

Re:Credibility

[Vombatus]

Not to mention his co-author, StonedRobin