Amazing read. I'm wondering if the release of this information has been timed with some other events - sort of responsible disclosure to FBI. I assume there's been an ongoing federal investigation and this will clearly tip the subject in destroying everything they're sitting on.
I think the template signature is "Make <SOMETHING> great again". So this tagline (Make your macbook pro, again) sounds more as a reference of "Hello, again" than Trump.
220 employees left, 155 in today's layoff, 340 cut in October. So, today there are only 30% of the employees who were there in October, or laying off 70% of the workforce.
My understanding of patents (having made a few): as long as you have strong lawyers (and good copy writers), you can almost patent anything. I was shocked by what we could get through.
"If they already know they will get nowhere with it" - we are still putting a lot of thoughts in their mind. They have asked for a meeting in person. Everything else is wild speculation.
It does not seem a threat either. The police can stop you anytime, ask you anything and it's your right to say no.
"I'm gonna ask you questions" does not sound so terrifying to me :)
Well, there has been no harassment. Leaving a card on a door or having a phone call with the lawyer is the daily work of law enforcement. Most of this story is made up in the mind of the author - from the motive they had, to the fact she would have been detained any minute.
Then I think it is way easier to write a post "Do not use technology, go back to the cave". Any technology has chances to fail, can be SQL, Cloud, yadda yadda. And if you want to work on the 'edge' (innovating to disrupt your competitors), that's a risk you should accept. Blaming the tools you use to achieve that point is childish.
Well, I worked in Vodafone (and Nokia) in very large (laaarge) projects, serving ~50 milions users. Years ago, no hope for NoSQL, we used MySQL. We hit at least 10/20 bugs, solved by 'hotpatch' from Sun. So? I think as developers we should get used to bugs and patches. Should I write a post "don't use MySQL?". We also hit several bugs in the generational garbage collector. Stop using Java?
I don't feel the drama here.