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To: Bearded One who wrote (22773)2/26/1999 12:04:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh  Read Replies (1) of 24154
 
Judge grills Microsoft executive news.com

Speaking of warped minds, we have this little tidbit off the wires. For amusement only, of course.

Invoking "Moby Dick"

Kempin earlier testified that letting computer users alter the company's ubiquitous Windows operating system would amount to "butchering" a unique product. He said he has "a hard time believing that [personal computer manufacturers] should have the right to change the product.'' Moreover, he said, giving personal computer users freedom to make such changes would be akin to burning the first chapter of Moby Dick, the classic Herman Melville novel.

"That to me is butchering the book," Kempin said in his second day of testimony. He suggested altering Windows also violates the company's intellectual property rights to deliver a product the way it was created.

The "integrity and uniformity" defense raised to new levels of absurdity. Offhand, I'd say Windows is more like Thomas Wolfe, whose mammoth novels were supposed to be unreadable before his editor rewrote them. Microsoft could actually get to work delivering an OS that sucked less, but the greatest company in the history of the known universe has other fish to fry.

Cheers, Dan.
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