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To: banker's lady who wrote (23969)	6/10/1999 4:34:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (1) of 74651

I'm also no lawyer, but I think you overestimate the importance of Jackson's comment (as I did in quoting the story). He is a lawyer, and although being a good lawyer was not a requirement for appointment back when Reagan was packing the courts with litmus-test jurists like Jackson, he seems to be at least a moderately good one. A trait I've noted among some good lawyers is that they become curious about things technical. Jackson seems most likely to go off on these tangents when a technical person is on the stand. I suppose it's better for both sides that Jackson ask such questions to clarify issues in his own mind rather than move onto the decision phase with a muddled view of things. To his credit, Felton seems to have discounted the importance of the issue by pointing out that companies have more efficient ways of preventing viruses. Microsoft won't be found liable for "damages based on 'potential for harm'". Rather, Felton's testimony is needed to make the case that the browser market was separate from the OS market. In his initial testimony he seemed to emphasize that IE wasn't really integrated all that well into the OS. Today's testimony seemed to move to a more reasonable tack: that, although it is integrated, the integration was a product decision that was not necessary.

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