Ex-Apple engineer sentenced to six months in prison for stealing self-driving car tech
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So 120 days or 6 months? Which is it?
Business days.
Ahh he gets weekends at home, how considerate!
It's Mars days obviously
It may be a 6 month sentence with an early release after 120 days, followed by 3 years supervision. However, perhaps if he served the full 6 months he wouldn't have the supervised release.
I don't know, I'm just guessing.
Could be time served as well. Still dumb to list 6 months in headline then say something else in the article without clarifying.
A Monf has 20 dais so do the math, dummy
6 months is not long enough.
This is stealing trade secrets, then fleeing to a country that doesn't give a shit about that.
I’ll agree with you when a corporation is jailed for life when an employee or consumer of their product dies. Until then, this is simple theft and should be financially punished.
O.o Since when is grand theft just a financial punishment? You realize you can get years in jail for it, right?…
Huh? No. Read the article, they literally stole hardware.
Emphasis mine.
Not to mention, it would be one thing to do this between American companies, but taking it to a Chinese company, and in China no less, likely has other serious implications.
Nice redirect - this is not about the theft of hardware but the divulging of [checks Republican notecard] Super Important Information (but not important enough to patent, or so simple as to not be patentable) that was given to [Checks skin color card] those theiving, IP stealing, red communist Chinese.
I hope your corporate masters give you a pat on the head and an extra Milk Bone tonight. You've worked hard for it.
… so you admit this was grand theft, but claim he got a whopping 6 months in prison because racism?
Did you need another layer for that tinfoil hat?
How long do you think Tim Cook should go to jail for stealing?
Yes, we must protect capital.
We should when it's other capital that wants to steal it.
Will no one think of the shareholders???
I hate to say this, but there is no Stalin on you.
I mean, there's also been five years of trials
How long is Tim Cook going to jail for stealing the technology for the apple watch?
Infringing on a patent and literally stealing hardware, and taking it to a Chinese competitor, are on completely different levels.