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A comment on Apple’s culture of secrecy wore down Swift creator and Xcode lead Chris Lattner. Parent comment

Re:Apple’s culture of secrecy wore down Swift creator and Xc... by digler999 on Friday January 13, 2017 @02:43PM (#13394049)
selling abandoned property you found ? no thats not a crime. If this is such a serious "crime" , why wasn't Gizmodo charged for possession of stolen property ?

You know what's a crime ? The fact that Apple has expedient access to the police when they negligently lose a $400 phone at a bar, instead of being told to "fill out a missing property report online" like everyone else when they call to report something missing or "stolen".

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Re:Apple’s culture of secrecy wore down Swift creator and Xc... by dloose on Friday January 13, 2017 @06:11PM (#13395620)
> selling abandoned property you found ? no thats not a crime.

Is that true? I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure you have to own something in order to sell it legally... and I don't think you get to claim ownership of every "abandoned" item you "find".

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Re:Apple’s culture of secrecy wore down Swift creator and Xc... by tinus_hn on Sunday January 15, 2017 @09:07AM (#13404008)
If it wasn't a crime, there wouldn't have been a conviction.

And getting the police to act on information you provide yourself is not the same as filling in a report online asking the police to find your missing phone.

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