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Just out of curiosity, why did you choose to call out Apple particularly?
They are the antithesis of what I believe a technology company should be. Everything is closed source, locked down and designed to make maximum profit at the expense of the customer/developer/artist.
The settlement will give 3-5K per employee. Hardly anything. I wonder why they settled, instead of going ahead with the trial. I'm totally unsympathetic with these companies, and now they are just getting away literally free.
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They are the antithesis of what I believe a technology company should be. Everything is closed source, locked down and designed to make maximum profit at the expense of the customer/developer/artist.
A company is likely not the appropriate structure if you want to create free software.
Fixed. Non-public companies can sometimes be an appropriate structure. E.g. the Mozilla Corporation: as a for-profit entity it can do a lot of things that the non-profit Mozilla Foundation can't, but it's 100% owned and completely controlled by the Foundation, and reinvests all profits back into the Mozilla project.
Settlement seems low. Looks like every company involved ended up saving quite a bit of money, after all is said and done, with this little salary racket they had going.
Dear Sergey, Larry, Tim Cook & Co, don't do this again or you'll pay tens of millions after saving hundreds of millions in salaries and benefit.
Settlement seems low. Looks like every company involved ended up saving quite a bit of money, after all is said and done, with this little salary racket they had going.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
They are the antithesis of what I believe a technology company should be. Everything is closed source, locked down and designed to make maximum profit at the expense of the customer/developer/artist.
A company is likely not the appropriate structure if you want to create free software.
Also, if in the future open source becomes the norm, not the exception, then this will become moot -- the fact that a company is based on open-source will be considered typical, not an outlier.
Now the question is, how much do people receive after the lawyers take their cut and it's divided up among 64K employees?
Typically lawyers get on the order of 30%, so about $3400 per employee.
Settlement seems low. Looks like every company involved ended up saving quite a bit of money, after all is said and done, with this little salary racket they had going.
Dear Sergey, Larry, Tim Cook & Co, don't do this again or you'll pay tens of millions after saving hundreds of millions in salaries and benefit.