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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 03 2012 @ 06:37 AM EDT |
Companies are not a dictatorship. Th CEO is just one member of the
board. Th CEO s position may be in direct conflict with the other board
members and the CEO desires may be different from the companies
desires.it is clear schwarz didn't get his way while CEO and has some
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 03 2012 @ 08:13 AM EDT |
Guess who was Chairman of the Board of Directors then?
However, when you look at the laws of agency, the CEO is an
agent, and a key agent related to the principal definition.
So, even it the Chairman didn't approve, if he did nothing
to control the CEO who was openly operating on a different
path or agenda, that the Laws of Agency typically, on a case
by case basis, would favor the position of the innocent 3rd
party who depended on the "words" or "deeds" of the agent of
the principal that "was acting" in a way to lead them to a
conclucion. In those cases, courts often rule that the
innocent 3rd party (Google, or phone makers, or consumers)
could not be harmed by the principal who after the fact
tries to reverse the actions of their agent(s).
The copyright part of the case is still key, because going
forward, an agent that is out there "on their own" so to
speak, can be muffled... and, maybe in the future, the
copyright powers could be restored, even if for a period of
time they were deemed as being "free" due to the actions and
words of the agent who was acting in a way to free them?
So, the judges ruling on copyright, bearing to the video's
wording is KEY to many open source projects such as Harmony
(a JAVA knock off) and even any MySQL knock offs (and the
patent part of the case will even apply with more interest
because methods and concepts are much more broad than
copyright).
If Google wins, we all win.
If Google loses, we all lose in a big way, and it is maybe
time to leave the US - THE US GOVERNMENT will lose because
no one in the US will ever develop here, and all the part of
the economy will disappear (for every action, there is the
potential for an equal and opposite reaction).
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