Re: no Java in XP Windows

["Chris Rehm" <javadisciple@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Taylor" <jtaylor@rpg2java.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 9:29 PM
Subject: RE: no Java in XP Windows


> Chris, Tom,
>
> Reading between the lines, don't you think that all of this really looks
> like nothing more than the Justice Department looking for an exit
strategy?
>
> The whole episode with Jackson doesn't quite sit right with me. I mean,
why
> on earth would a seasoned, intelligent judge, do something so blatantly
> foolish, when he surely must have known that it would mean the end of his
> ruling? I find it very difficult to accept that he's dumb enough to
> unwittingly put himself in that position.

Personally, I think he was angry and offended. Since he was the guy who
signed the first consent decree after Judge Sporkin refused, I think he felt
that when Microsoft pulled all those stunts they were betraying him
presonally. I think that Microsoft made him look like a fool and he vented
and it made him look more the fool.

Some of the comments he made were in direct response to MS's behavior in
court which he found insulting.

But I don't know why he did what he did.

> John Taylor


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