Author Topic: Micro$oft = Tonya Harding? (Read 316 times)

Mickey1992 · « **on:** December 06, 2002, 02:09:10 PM »

Finally, we have a judge that understands what an evil empire Micro$oft is.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20021206/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_sun_10

BALTIMORE (AP) - The federal judge overseeing Sun Microsystems' request for an injunction against Microsoft found several comparisons between the software companies and the world of athletics.

U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz compared Microsoft's treatment of Sun to Tonya Harding's knee-capping attack on rival figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, as well as a crooked baseball game between Baltimore and New York.

Motz ruminated from the bench Thursday as attorneys gave their closing arguments in the three-day hearing on Sun's request to force Microsoft to carry the latest version of Sun's Java programming language in Windows.

After assuming for the sake of the analogy that Kerrigan was the better skater, Motz said: "Nancy Kerrigan is deprived of the opportunity to compete on those two good knees."

Motz also compared Microsoft's anticompetitive conduct to a baseball game between the Orioles and Yankees, in which one team uses a camera in center field to steal signals from the opponent.

whgates3 · « **Reply #1 on:** December 06, 2002, 02:36:16 PM »

that judge should stop reading the USA today, & maybe ingest some basic tech boox if hes going to be making important decisions on the topic. he sounds like real moron & his analogies are idiotic, which is what happens the population of the judicial system is based on political patronage

miko2d · « **Reply #2 on:** December 06, 2002, 02:48:25 PM »

whgates3: he sounds like real moron & his analogies are idiotic...

No. He sounds like a very smart guy who intends to run for a public office eventually. The analogies are idiotic - they are targeted to a specific audience of average american. The intellectual elite will realise that but are going to vote for him anyway for taking on an "evil" corporation.

miko

whgates3 · « **Reply #3 on:** December 06, 2002, 03:48:17 PM »

very few federal judges (lifetime appointment) run for public office. he sounds like he has job security and as a result is doing a crappy job (thats the type that get federal bench these days - the type that biggest skill is rim jobbing politicians)

miko2d · « **Reply #4 on:** December 06, 2002, 04:04:51 PM »

It's called judicial activism in promoting liberal agenda. obviously by being successfull you are violating rights of the losers and at least making them feel bad.

On the other hand Tonya Harding can sue Hancy Harrigan that by outskating her she denied her a chance to go to the Olympics - which is the same effect as the broken knees would have. So her reaction was defencive and justifiable. Nancy started first.

The sports should have long ago switched to public school policy - no grades or competition but "self-actualisation", and "participation".

miko