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A piece on APC Magazine’s website that I referenced on July 9th has been gutted by Apple’s lawyers.

A positive story about some new features on Mac OS X Leopard infuriated the joyless legal types at 1 Infinte Loop. A legal nastygram soon found its way to APC, which pulled the article in response.

APC were less than pleased with the directive from Cupertino:

APC is not bound by any sort of confidentiality agreement with Apple, and we were writing about things like Spaces, Stacks and Leopard’s new look that Steve Jobs has demonstrated at length in his recent MacWorld keynote.

Nevertheless, in an effort to reach an amicable resolution we removed the screenshots from the article.

Unfortunately that was not the end of it. Apple’s lawyers weren’t happy simply with the removal of the screenshots and demanded the removal of the entire article, citing “trade secret misappropriation”, a legal concept that exists in the United States but not Australia.

Rather than deal with the expense and ungratefulness of Apple, APC washed its hands of the mess, and understandably so. “Clearly, the message is: to find out more about Mac OS X, go to Apple’s website, where you can read about it in gushing, uncritical, Apple marketing speak,” wrote APC’s Dan Warne.

I respect their decision, but it would have been great if APC had the resources to say to Steve Jobs, “bring that weak stuff on, we’re ready to defend here.”

Via APC

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