Intel, others support Apple lawsuit
updated 08:40 am EDT, Fri April 29, 2005
Intel on Apple lawsuit
Intel, Genentech and the Business Software Alliance filed court briefs this week. Apple wants to subpoena e-mail records from Mac site PowerPage, which the company says leaked confidential product information. The briefs, filed this week in a California appeals court, support a tentative ruling by Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge James Kleinberg. "Strong trade secret laws are vital to the health of California's high-technology business and to the economy of the nation as a whole," Intel and BSA stated in their joint brief. "There is no public interest in having such trade secrets stolen and plastered on the Internet for competitors and others to see." Recently, many news organizations have voiced their support for the Mac rumor sites named in the lawsuit.
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Finally some sense
Finally!
Nice to see that some people actually get it.
These cases are not about the ability to protect sources who provide information of public interest to journalists, but about protection of trade secrets ONLY. They have nothing to do with eroding the "free speech rights of bloggers, either.
None of the rumor sites are blogs to begin with, so suggesting that a ruling would infringe upon bloggers' rights is ridiculous.
As the judge himself stated, an interested public is NOT the same thing as public interest. There need to be protections in place for corporate trade secrets when there is no danger to the public by withholding them.