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Warden's Stallllling... (10/22/98)
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"Redmond Justice" began its new season with a bang, to be sure, but the pace is now starting to drag. We like Jim Barksdale's style on the stand, to be sure, and his cross-examination by Microsoft's lawyer John Warden definitely started out with some real fireworks; if you want to see just how nasty this soap opera's been getting, we highly recommend checking out Inter@ctive Investor's coverage of the flaring tempers. But he's been on camera for a little too long, now, and still Warden won't let him off the stand. Check out TechWeb's coverage for more on this.
The fireworks have since died down a bit, and Thursday's proceedings were little more than a seemingly endless attempt by Warden to show that Netscape wasn't harmed by anything that Microsoft may have done. The general consensus seems to be that Microsoft is now just stalling for time; the longer the case runs, the better it is for them. Unfortunately, such a move is also worse for us viewers, who tune in to hear the dirt and keep our fingers crossed for violent outbursts and tearful confessions. Day 4 offered none of that; it's as if it were just a trial, or something. Yecch.
Meanwhile, Avie Tevanian, former NeXT and current Apple superduper software dude, must be feeling like Rip Taylor when he gets bumped from the Tonight Show because another guest ran long. Avie's next up in the witness list, and was expected to take the stand on Thursday, but Warden just doesn't want to let go of Barksdale. Our advice to the director of this thing? Pick up the pace-- the viewers are losing interest. And it's not nice to keep Avie waiting; the boy has to get back to work on Mac OS X, for crying out loud.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 10/22/98 episode: October 22, 1998: Steve Jobs offers another peek into the mind behind the turnaround, courtesy of Fortune's interview. Meanwhile, "Redmond Justice" stalls out as Microsoft gets lost in minutiae with Barksdale on the stand, while poor Avie Tevanian waits in the wings, and Apple is sued once again-- this time for killing the Newton...
Other scenes from that episode: 1094: Mercurial Mind (10/22/98) What goes on in the head of the world's most mercurial interim CEO? Heck, all kinds of stuff, as evidenced by Fortune magazine's recent interview with Steve Jobs. Others may not agree, but AtAT stands by our principle that any Jobs interview is a must-read for any Apple-watcher. There's seemingly no end to the interesting little tidbits one can extract from the short interview... 1096: Legal Repercussions (10/22/98) It's been a little while since we've seen a new lawsuit rear its ugly litigious head on our show, but the sue-free zone ends here. Some company named Harris Corp. has filed suit against Apple for canceling the Newton project, in a move marking what we believe to be the first legal fallout from the detonation of the Newton bomb last February...
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