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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?

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To: t2 who wrote (24863)	6/24/1999 7:01:00 PM
From: Alan Buckley	Read Replies (2) of 74651

[...MSFT was given the choice of jury or judge and they selected to have the case decided by a judge. If they knew it would be Jackson, why would they choose this route?] For the answer, compare the results of the AAPL "look and feel" trial and the STAC Electronics case. Technical jury trials are a problem for "richest man" Gates and "deep pockets" MSFT. The average juror doesn't understand the technical details and decides to slam MSFT because "they won't miss the money anyway". STAC had a really lame case in which they basically claimed proprietary rights to well known hashing algorithms. The STAC lawyers threw up a blizzard of obfuscatory technical arguments then reminded the befuddled jury that MSFT is rich and STAC is not. The jury gave STAC $140M. They immediately faded into obscurity because, in reality, there was nothing special about their technology at all. In the AAPL case, on the other hand, the federal judge (forget his name) painstakingly reviewed the technical facts and ignored the anti-MSFT media circus. He probed with converging questions until he understood the issue well enough to make an intelligent decisions on each individual complaint. MSFT slowly but surely whittled the case down to nothing. Unfortunately, MSFT drew "doesn't Yahoo" Jackson who is obviously incapable of fully understanding the case before him and rarely rules against the government anyway. Don't panic. This case has been headed to the appeals court since the day it was filed.

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