Sweaky? That one threw me for a minute, had to look up the spelling.
Sal, squeaky clean is one of those things like bias, people you agree with are objective and those you don't agree with are biased. Not you in particular, but when issues like objectivity and bias are raised, that's usually what's being expressed.
You go through this stuff in jury selection, and in a big news case you end up with people who are either totally uninformed or lie about what they know. I doubt that the appeals panel convening April 21 is squeaky clean, even with Silberman recusing himself. Randolph the Bork protege has a totally open mind about antitrust matters, I'm sure. That's the process. I'd guess that wrt the Special Master, Microsoft is on stronger grounds on pure procedural matters than on the issue of bias.
Lessig sent what I'd call an obviously sarcastic email. As far as suing goes, he'd be approximately right if Mac IE was set up to explicitly mess up Mac Nav files. Nothing came of any of this. Looking for an expert who knows something about computers but nothing about Microsoft is a formidable task.
Anyway, the current action is probably not a big deal, one way or the other. It seems to have been reduced totally to the sacred icon issue. It might have meant something a year ago. Now, we just got to watch for what larger action might be in store.
Cheers, Dan. |
