As the Apple Turns: Scene 338: "I Said WHAT? When?" (1/7/98)

"I Said WHAT? When?" (1/7/98)

One of the great joys of living and loving in this Age of Technology is that damn near every fool word you ever "say" via email is etched permanently in stone, metaphorically speaking. That's the sad truth that Lawrence Lessig is learning as Microsoft continues to fight his appointment as Special Master in the "Redmond Justice" case. Despite Lessig's refusal to step down from the position, his emailed quips about "selling his soul" by installing Internet Explorer on his Mac last year may just get him booted. An excellent San Jose Mercury News article has a wealth of information.

Lessig was rightfully angry when the act of installing IE on his Mac appeared to screw up his Netscape bookmarks, so he asked a friend at Netscape via email whether IE was really responsible. Personally, we don't see any particular problem with Lessig's mail, though Eric Bradley's rant puts him squarely out of the Special Master running (though he's a Netscape employee anyway). You can read the actual email messages yourself on Microsoft's "Press Pass" page-- for some reason the three short messages are in the form of a 181KB GIF image, scanned in from a printout. Perhaps Microsoft could spend a little time writing an OCR package? Sheesh.

It must be kind of spooky for Lessig to see personal email he sent a year ago on a public web page being read and judged by thousands of people all over the world. We at AtAT hope you all appreciate the very large sacrifice we are making by bringing you this show-- with everything we've broadcast, we've all but destroyed our chances of ever being a Special Master (or, for that matter, President of the United States). Allow us to wipe away a collective tear.

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The above scene was taken from the 1/7/98 episode:

January 7, 1998: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

336: Anything for a Profit (1/7/98) Who's keeping the books? It seems that there was in fact some "creative financial planning" involved in Apple's recently-announced $45 million Q1 profit. According to MacOS Rumors, Apple would have posted a small loss instead of a small profit if not for a special slush fund they had set up last quarter...
337: Sub-$1K Mac: Still Waiting (1/7/98) So if you're a faithful viewer tuned in from home, you're not the target audience for the sub-$1000 home computer. Why? Because the whole point of the sub-$1K machine is to pull in the other half of the consumer households-- the ones who have not yet purchased a computer...

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