Microsoft, Apple crackdown on bad employees
WinInfo | at | by Mike
This week, both Microsoft and Apple Computer dropped the legal gauntlet on workers who took advantage of the companies. In the Microsoft case, an employee of the software giant was arrested and charged with selling over $9 million worth of Microsoft software, purchased in-house at a steep discount. For Apple, the damage was done by a former contract worker who stole plans to the company's PowerMac designs last summer and posted them on a public Web site in advance of the product's release. The bizarre legal cases come just days after Microsoft threatened a Windows enthusiast Web site with legal action if its proprietor refused to hand over its domain name freely to the company.