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To: Brian Malloy who wrote (34496)	11/20/1999 6:20:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Respond to of 74651

Brian: You have to hand it to jackson he slipped out of this one rather neatly. However as a voluntary referee I wonder if his views on the matter will be made public or is his role to talk privately to both sides to determine where some reasonable middle ground might be found. Certainly Jackson isn't perverting the justice system to a point where he simply turn over the decision making power to another judge because he lacks the skills to deal with a case he has already severely prejudiced. This is a very odd thing. I will interested to see what Posner's day to day functionality inthis job of mediator will be. It will also interesting to see whether there will be no leaks from either side. JFD

To: Brian Malloy who wrote (34496)	11/20/1999 7:27:00 PM
From: Alan Buckley	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Must admit Judge PJ blind-sided me with this Posner appointment. The guy seems light years away from Lawrence Lessig, the judge's previous attempt at hired expertise. I imagine the Appeals court nixing Lessig has something to do with it, as they can hardly object to a fellow judge. Still, I understood it was application of the "special master" mechanism that was overturned, rather than Lessig specifically. I'm suspicious PJ may simply be covering his butt for the appeal. After all, Posner has no real power here to decide anything and PJ comes out smelling less biased for appointing him. I guess we can hope Posner will put the fear of coming up empty on appeal into the DOJ. In a sense, it's all down-hill for them now as they're unlikely to ever get a more decisive ruling than they already have. Did they all get enough media face time to feel they can claim victory, make a deal and run? Well, I'd say no. There still is just no common ground at all. The only thing I can imagine is something where MSFT trades broad source licensing of Win98 (not Win2K) and maybe uniform OEM pricing for not being branded a monopoly. It's my guess, though, that nothing will come of these talks except some screaming headaches for poor Posner. However, it will be nice to have some optimism in the news for a change.

To: Brian Malloy who wrote (34496)	11/20/1999 7:55:00 PM
From: Harry Sharp	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

>>><snip>Jackson also invited Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig to file a friend-of-the-court brief on legal issues. Lessig had acted as a consultant to Jackson in a previous Microsoft case. The software giant, which claimed Lessig was biased against it, last year persuaded an appeals court to disqualify him.<< OK, Posner is great news but am I the only one concerned about his idiot Lessig back on the scene? Isn't this the guy that suggested to Netscape officials that legal steps be taken against Microsoft because his computer crashed? Is Lessig an attempt to influence Posner to side with the govt views?