Re: Is Jackson widening the case?

["Norm" <normanmo@clark.net>]

On Thu, 10 Jun 1999 18:51:50 -0400, Paul Rickard wrote:

>> "With that one question, Jackson appears to have offered the
>> government something its lawyers have not developed: An argument
>> that simply having a Web browser that cannot be removed from the
>> operating system -- as Microsoft claims cannot be done with Windows
>> 98 and its Internet Explorer Web browser -- puts the user at risk." 
>>  
>
>    Judge Jackson may not be a computer engineer or anything, but he's 
>sharper than Microsoft has made out if he caught on to that without 
>anybody mentioning it. "Hmm.. I wonder if integrating the Internet in 
>an operating system reduces its security.." What does it say about the 
>final outcome of this trial when the judge is thinking up new areas 
>that the prosecution could attack?


     I believe it's a reaction to all the 'bull' that M$ has tried to
pass off on TPJ, but instead of 'snowing' him all they've really
managed to do is to insult his intelligence...right to his face.  But
TPJ's question cuts to the core of one of M$'s claims, that they're
"doing what's best for their customers".  In this context the question
is a valid one, is what M$ is doing actually good for the consumer?

--
 ...Cheers,

 ...Norm

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