[Am-info] Re: MS Depositions

[sturde@az.com]

In <20020130210902.7375929BCD@lists.essential.org>, on 01/30/02 
   at 04:09 PM, am-info-request@venice.essential.org said:

>Well lets face it.  Its the same justice system that lets OJ Simpson
>free...  "American Justice.... The finest Justice money can buy....."

>Did you ever think America would let an American company like Microsoft
>give up the monopoly  they have?  After all the American government, and
>courts just think...  "We know Microsoft is  guilty and they are
>assholes, but at least they are American assholes"

The problem I have with an ad hominem attack such as this on "American
Justice" is that it is plain wrong.  If the judge made a decision, it
would be based on law and her reading of the law with the facts before
her.  MS has lost consistently before judges, not once, but again and
again.  We are now in the penalty phase of the lawsuit, during which MS
has the opportunity to respond to proposals.  The only place it has
"gained" is with the DOJ proposed "settlement" which has certainly
received enormous bad publicity.  And there are clearly others continuing
the battle.  So to damn and blast because of "defeat" in a skirmish in a
major battle and war, is unjustified.

James Sturdevant 


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