[Am-info] Microsoft's legal strategy?

[John J. Urbaniak]

Gene Gaines wrote:

> John,
>
> I suggest you are wrong.

Maybe so, but I fail to see the relevance of your "Attila the Hun" story.

John


>
>
> Think Attila the Hun.
>
> "King of the Huns (434–53). He ruled with his elder brother
> until 445, his dominion extending over Germany and Scythia
> from the Rhine to the frontiers of China. In 447 he devastated
> all the countries between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean,
> defeating Emperor Theodosius II (ruled 408–50). In 451 he
> invaded Gaul, but was routed by Aëtius, the Roman commander,
> and Theodoric I, King of the Visigoths, on the Catalaunian
> Plain. He retreated to Hungary, but then made an incursion
> into Italy (452), devastating several cities, Rome itself
> being saved only by the personal mediation of Pope Leo I.
> The Hunnish empire decayed after his death."
>   (Courtesy Atomica and AND Classification Data Limited.)
>
> Think of Attila and his brother hunkering down around a
> campfire in the year 447, surrounded by a horde of loyal,
> screaming spear-carriers, having just ravished a small
> town which stood in their path, the smell of fresh blood
> still on their clothes.  And the next town sends out their
> town council to demand to know if the Huns are observing
> their local laws.
>
> Now, think how this horde might instruct their legal team.
>
> ?
>
> Gene
> gene.gaines@gainesgroup.com
>
> On Wednesday, February 20, 2002, 7:10:24 AM, John wrote:
>
> > "Eric M. Hopper" wrote:
>
> >>         Could their legal strategy be to annoy each and every judge so
> >> thoroughly that they make mistakes that can be jumped on in the appeals
> >> court?
>
> > Maybe you've got something there?
>
> > John
>
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