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Black Robes & Good Taste (10/23/00)
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You know how Microsoft fought tooth and nail to keep its "Redmond Justice" appeal out of the hands of the Supreme Court, instead shooting for an Appeals Court hearing first? Well, for those of you who haven't been keeping up, there are two obvious reasons why. The first is that this case has been dragging on seemingly forever already, and Microsoft's hoping to stretch it out even longer to render any eventual penalty completely irrelevant. The second is that the Appeals Court has been very good to Microsoft in the past, siding with the Redmond Giant on more than one antitrust-related occasion. Microsoft got its wish; the Supreme Court kicked the case back down to a lower court, much to the Justice Department's chagrin-- but faithful viewer Porsupah hints that the Appeals Court may not be quite so friendly an audience after all.
According to The Register, Microsoft may not be able to scare up much sympathy from the judges it faces next-- at least, not from Judge Ginsburg. Reportedly, while overseeing another case, he and his three clerks "all used Apple PowerBooks on a network that allowed them to send messages back and forth while the arguments went on." Macs in the courtroom; does justice get any sweeter? Whether or not Judge Ginsburg's "platform of choice" has any bearing on his leanings in the "Redmond Justice" case remains to be seen... but this could get very interesting.
Incidentally, we figure that's why Microsoft has actually been trying to develop decent Mac products for the past couple of years. The company knew full well that eventually its case (and therefore its fate) would rest in the hands of at least one or two PowerBook-using appellate judges, and thus hoped to curry their favor with such allegedly Mactastic applications as Internet Explorer 5 and office:mac 2001. A more diabolical plan we've never encountered. Here's hoping that at least some of those judges still haven't forgiven Microsoft for inflicting serious psychic carnage on the Mac-using world with Word 6.0.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 10/23/00 episode: October 23, 2000: The natives are getting restless; Steve addresses the troops, but some of them seem leakier than usual. Meanwhile, John Dvorak blames Apple's current stock price on none other than Alan "Hatchet-Job" Deutschman, and word has it that some of the judges slated to handle Microsoft's appeal choose to use PowerBooks in the courtroom...
Other scenes from that episode: 2628: Tales From Inside The Hive (10/23/00) Worker Bees of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your stock options! And since most of those options are just about worthless following Apple's stock price debacle a few weeks back, we aren't too surprised to see more of those industrious little hive-dwelling insects decide to tempt fate and the Wrath of Steve by leaking various proprietary dollops of honey-sweet insider goodness to the Big Evil sometimes referred to as the "Mac Web."... 2629: Blame It On The Book (10/23/00) Quick, why is Apple's stock price in the toilet right now? Earnings warning? Sales slump? Cubes too pricey? Bzzzzzzzzzt, sorry, thanks for playing. No, for the real reason that AAPL is currently still struggling to stay above the $20 level (when is was in the 50s mere weeks ago) is because Alan Deutschman had to open his big fat yap-- er, lift his big fat pen-- and write that unauthorized biography of everyone's favorite mercurial iCEO...
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