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The Swift Hand of Justice (6/10/98)
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So much for our plans to extend our "Redmond Justice" courtroom drama indefinitely into the future... It sounds like Judge Jackson wants to cancel the show after only a few more months. Yesterday he made it clear to both the Justice Department and Microsoft that he will not tolerate this landmark antitrust case stretching out for a decade, as the earlier IBM antitrust case did. Instead, he fully expects the case will last only three months or so; the trial is scheduled to start on September 8th and should conclude before the month's end. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has details.
In order to help ensure that the case doesn't grow out of control, Jackson is limiting each side to only twelve witnesses, whicch sounds to us to be shockingly low. In addition, those witnesses all have to be questioned in writing before the actual trial, so the trial itself will consist primarily of cross-examination. Way to cut down on the potential for high drama! You're killing us, here, Tom! (er, Your Honor.)
Unsurprisingly, both sides proclaimed the deadlines and limits as a victory, since it behooves everyone that the case be settled as quickly as possible. Everyone, that is, except us-- what could have been years' worth of raw material has vanished into the ether. Oh well, guess we'll have to dig up our courtroom drama from some other case. Will our travails never cease?
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 6/10/98 episode: June 10, 1998: Uh oh, the same old Availability Problem rears its ugly head, this time affecting the PowerBook G3 Series. Meanwhile, Judge Jackson sets limits and deadlines in the ongoing "Redmond Justice" affair, and Apple decides to retire the venerable PICT format from its "native image format" post as of Mac OS X...
Other scenes from that episode: 762: Same Old Song and Dance (6/10/98) We hate to say it, but we're experiencing a serious frisson of déjà vu as we hear about Apple's continuing availability problems with the PowerBook G3 Series. While the 233 and 250 MHz models have been trickling into the channel here and there, it's the "config 6" models (292 MHz processor and 14.1" screen) that are still nothing but vapor... 764: So Long to PICT (6/10/98) Just a quickie here, as we wave goodbye to the venerable PICT image format, which is being supplanted as the native Mac OS image file format in Mac OS X. Instead, the native format will be Adobe's PDF, or Portable Document Format...
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