[CLUE-Talk] Had to share this

Timothy C. Klein teece at silverklein.net
Thu Apr 18 15:30:58 MDT 2002


* Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier (jbrockmeier at earthlink.net) wrote:
> Here's a juicy quote from a Yahoo! article about Software execs
> testifying FOR Microsoft:
> 
> "Brent Frei, co-founder of the software firm Onyx, said the
> remedies sought by the states would hurt consumers. But he later
> acknowledged that he had not read the states' penalties nor the
> government settlement and that Microsoft lawyers wrote the first
> draft of his testimony for him."
> 
> Okay... how in the name of all that's Holy can the judge
> not slap the crap out of Microsoft after testimony like that?
> How? Why doesn't this kind of thing get coverage like Enron or
> Bill Clinton doing the nasty in the Oval Office? Why?

This kind of thing baffles me, too.  Why didn't anybody go to jail for
faking that video they did a while back?  Sure seemed like contempt of
court to me, verging on perjury.

Tim
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