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Predictable Drama (8/20/98)
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Oh look, Microsoft's won another appeal in its battle against the Department of Justice. This time, an appellate court overturned Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's ruling that the DoJ's pretrial deposition of Bill Gates should be open to the public. Instead, the depositions will be taken in private, thus severely limiting the entertainment potential of the proceedings. You can read all about it in the Washington Post, if you forgot to tune in.
Is anyone else picking up on a recurring pattern in the ongoing "Redmond Justice" show? It seems to us that the writers have used the same plot device over and over again: Judge Jackson rules against Microsoft in some way, and then an appellate court overturns his ruling. We first saw this happen back in the first season, when the Judge issued his infamous preliminary injunction requiring Microsoft to stop forcing its Windows licensees to preinstall Internet Explorer on their PC's if they didn't want to. That injunction was overturned on appeal last June. Then there was the issue of Lawrence Lessig being appointed as a special master in the case-- again, reversed upon appeal last February. And now this public vs. private deposition appeal... Been there, seen that. Are we watching reruns?
Anyway, the time sucked up by Microsoft's appeal has prompted a delay in the trial itself, which has been moved from September 8th to September 23rd, according to the San Jose Mercury News. But then again, we all know that the outcome of the trial isn't what's significant-- it's the appeal that comes later that we should be waiting for. If you ask us, "Redmond Justice" needs new writers, because the plot is definitely getting stale...
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 8/20/98 episode: August 20, 1998: A California retail chain reveals that the iMac is selling relatively well among first-time computer buyers and even Wintel users. Meanwhile, the iMac appears to have a little glitch with connecting to non-EarthLink Internet service providers, and Microsoft wins yet another appeal in the increasingly stale saga known as "Redmond Justice..."
Other scenes from that episode: 954: Demographically Speaking (8/20/98) Still more news comes trickling in about the iMac's introduction last weekend. ComputerWare, the ten-store retail chain in California that seems to wind up getting quoted in just about every news story about the iMac's big launch, apparently issued a press release revealing some preliminary data about just who was buying up all those iMacs... 955: iCan't Connect (8/20/98) Reports of problems with the new iMacs have been surprisingly scarce, and it seems like Apple did a great job of releasing a solid and reliable product. However, we've been having one little problem with ours, and while at first we thought it was perhaps only happening to us, an Inter@ctive Week Online article implies otherwise...
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