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If Steve Jobs were alive today, should he be in jail?
Every coin has two sides. A genius on one hand, a law-breaker on the other.
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Others will disagree, but I don't see anything morally wrong with agency pricing, or with conspiring to charge customers of copyrighted books high prices.
However, I do think preventing your employees from bettering themselves by seeking other employment is wrong. So that law should be enforced. As for jail, it probably would not take much to stop the behavior. A week or two of nights and weekends in jail might work. Not because he was Steve Jobs, but because taking anyone off the tax rolls should be a last resort. |
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...only if his name weren't Steve Jobs.
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And his acolytes will never admit he was a white collar criminal and a likely sociopath. And, boy, are *they* legion. I'm guessing that if he had been sent to jail, we would have seen a storming of the jail tha would've made the Bastille incident look like a picnic. |
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What goes up must come down, and Jobs can't get any lower, and Apple will get knocked down bit by bit as well. |
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Wow. First, some of you have a very loose understanding of the law and how things work. For Jobs to have seen jail time, he would first have to be charged and convicted with something that has a legal penalty that involves jail time, i.e. criminal. Most of the laws that people claim that Jobs may have violated are civil, not criminal.
Second, I find it amazing that people have such hatred towards someone whose basic crime appears to be that he built a very successful company whose products some people don't like. |
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From all I've read about Steve Jobs over the years, I do believe he had tendencies towards screwing over others. The "anti-poaching" agreement he got the major companies to agree on is particularly abhorrent to me as an employee. I'm not in the tech field, but the general principle is nauseating. An employee should not be deprived of the right to seek better opportunities elsewhere.
However I do strongly admire his focus on producing quality hardware and refusing compromises on that front. I wish more manufacturers would take a leaf out of his book there. I'm conflicted. |
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Or the quotes? He falsified board meeting documents! That *is* a criminal offense and constitutes securities fraud. Other people went to jail for doing exactly what he did. Jeeze! When does the RDF expire anyway? |
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Didn't the companies that ran the employment cartel also "invite" other companies to join, otherwise they would face unrelated patent lawsuits? Wouldn't these kinds of threats violate some anti-racketeering laws or something of the kind? Apparently it doesn't matter that diplomatic relations with India go down the drain because their consul general supposedly fell foul of employment laws with regard to a single employee, but attorneys should better not indict tech billionaires who donate to election campaigns.
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