Fear stalks the streets of Cupertino these days as Apple Computer Inc employees fretfully try to recall whether they have ever passed on any company-confidential information and dream up ways to cover their tracks if they may have done: matters have been brought to a head by the emergence of the nuPrometheus League, which threatens to unleash the code of the Macintosh operating system on the world, but the climate of fear is claiming other victims, and Newsbytes reports that David Ramsey, author of Release 2.0 of MacPaint and a highly respected programmer, was fired by Apple after he disclosed future software directions at Apple on the Compuserve information network; Ramsey claims he didn’t even know that the information was secret.
