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[Douglas Loss <drloss@suscom.net>]

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Hi: Well, good points, all. There's probably a school of thought out
there, that using Microsoft's arrogance/incompetence to accomplish the
desired goal of informing the decision-makers in our education system 
is just exactly the way to go. If successful in such a pursuit, that 
success will carry over to our elected officials. Maybe?

Thanks,
Tom Poe
Reno, NV
http://www.studioforrecording.org/
http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/
http://renotahoe.pm.org/

On Sat, 4 May 2002 dinotrac@mail.ifip.com wrote:

 > Of course, I sent a follow-up correction.  It's Rule 11!  The brain
 > gets bad as one gets older.
 >
 > You can't really provoke a Rule 11 violation.  You have to count on
 > the arrogance/incompetence of the other side.  Also, courts are
 > reluctant to grant Rule 11 damages.  I'm lucky enough to be in the 7th
 > circuit, where they a) have some of the very best judges in the
 > Federal Judiciary, and b) take Rule 11 seriously.
 >
 > The thorny part is that you satisfy Rule 11 requirements if your
 > argument is a reasonable extension of existing law, and that gives
 > lots of room for lawyers to wiggle.  Not infinite room, but room.  I
 > managed to win Rule 133 (or was that 139) damages at the Illinois
 > state level once, but such a victory is even rarer in the state court
 > than the Federal.
 >
 > That said, the real problem is that Microsoft's lawyers would never be
 > stupid enough to actually prosecute on the basis of removing the
 > preinstalled OS.  It's comforting sometimes to think that Microsofties
 > are stupid, but they're not.  Vicious, yes.  Stupid, no.
 >
 > Dean
 >
 >
 >




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