Microsoft Warns of 'Media Circus' Around Bill Gates nytimes.com
But it's not clear that the masters of megahype marketing are for it or against it. I mean, if Bill wanted to cool things down, he could, like, shut up, you know.
Microsoft contends the obscure Publicity in Taking Evidence Act of 1913 doesn't apply in its circumstances, arguing that "Congress never intended the statute to apply to modern discovery depositions now being taken at a breakneck pace in this case."
Uh huh. I'm sure Congress didn't exactly intend for the "Chicago School" interpretation of antitrust law, so beloved by the appeals panel majority, to be the primary interpretation, seeing how it hadn't been formulated at the time. But no matter, another small mind thing. "Original intent" arguments have this convenient way of always favoring the original intent of some "conservative", "judicial restraint" type.
But, perhaps anticipating a loss by the appeals court, Microsoft has already started planning with the Justice Department and a media lawyer to make arrangements for the public to attend with as little disruption as possible.
Or as Bill's alter ego P.T. Barnum might say, the show must go on. Brisk sales of the OS that was supposed to suck less certainly seem to indicate that P.T. was right about that other tag line.
Cheers, Dan. |
