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Re:Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it... by FirmwareBurner on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @01:44PM (#39619480)
Fair enough, no jail time then but how about the personal liability in money. You fuck up, it's your own money you gotta pay with, not the company's bottomless war-chest.
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Re:Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it... by lostlogin on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @03:20PM (#39620891)
> You fuck up, it's your own money you gotta pay with, not the company's bottomless war-chest.

Sort of good and sort of bad - some percentage of the time this would lead to zero money changing hands as the executive is bankrupt or has no assets.

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Re:Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @01:46PM (#39619522)
> it's your own money you gotta pay with, not the company's

I agree with this, and it could be constructed out of shareholder rights. Perhaps it could only be applied past a certain threshold of compensation, say, 100x the median wage. ($4.6mm [1].)

I’d argue the threshold should be final, unappealable regulatory penalty or criminal conviction of the corporation.

[1] https://usafacts.org/data/topics/economy/jobs-and-income/job...

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