“Apple Computer is hosting its big developer confab (WWDC) in San Francisco this week. The Unofficial Apple Weblog reports that Apple has made it no blog zone. In the hall there are notices posted that say “Please ensure that your communications with others outside WWDC 2006, including your blogs, do not contain any Apple Confidential Information.” This raises an interesting question. Is information that is presented at a public forum bloggable? I am not a lawyer and I don’t play one on TV, but this seems somewhat draconian to me,” Steve Rubel writes for Micro Persuasion.
Full article with photo of Apple warning notice here.
Well, I’m not an attorney (fortunately) but I’ve worked with them lots (unfortunately), and play someone who occasionally has common sense. Could it be that the QuickTime broadcast Apple put on the Web is non-confidential? Could it also be that when Apple pulls developers into private side rooms to discuss secret plans that are protected with confidentiality agreements, than that’s confidential?
The confidentiality clause is great marketing and cheap advertising. Always the showman, Steve makes it all look good.
“Is information that is presented at a public forum bloggable?”
Yes, it is. However, WWDC is not a public forum.
Try walking in off the street. Don’t have your badge? You ain’t gettin’ past the lobby. So, by definition, this is not a public forum.
i <heart> Sputnik. Don’t ever leave us again.
“This event and demo of the new Apple OS is the biggest collection of empty vapor ware I have ever seen.”
Have you ever HEARD of VISTA?
>I think Vista is going to be a Microsoft killer.
Nice one! It’s totally congruent with the ‘Golden Mean’, like it was, I dunno… golden or something.
The billion dollar question is:
What is “top secret” that Apple can afford to just “spring on” developers when Leopard goes GM?
Are all the “top secret” features self contained or “forward compatible” such that developers need not know anything about them?
I mean, any significant GUI change might adversely affect a product under development. …Or any serious structural changes to the filesystem, etc., might break things for an app under development.
It is to do with respect. If Mac developers don’t want to have to be made to sign confidentiality agreements to attend future WWDC’s they might choose today to respect their host’s wishes…
Quotes of the Day: “Vista is going to be a Microsoft killer.” Oh yes…!
and
“OSX has already gone where Windows should have gone years ago, and where VISTA 3.0 won’t reach…”.
I can’t wait for them to torrent confidential software :nudge nudge: :cough: developer 10.5 :cough:
um….where is M$ in all this….do they even have anything to compare leopard to?
……………no. ty all for coming…move along ppl