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Microsoft Settlement Comments
GreyPoopon writes: "I'm sure somebody has already sent this in, but what the heck. According to Excite, it looks like a summary of the comments on the Microsoft settlement only show 5 of the 47 released by the Justice Department in support of the settlement. Does this mean that Judge Kollar-Kotelly will rely on only these 47 to make her decision?" The comments that the DOJ describes as "major" are now published; the procedure the DOJ wants to follow for publishing all of the 30,000 comments received is contained in a court filing. (The Federal Register, if you don't know, is a dead-tree, daily publication of the doings of the U.S. Federal Government. The Department of Justice is arguing that there are simply too many comments to publish on paper, despite the legal requirement to do so.)
Read all about it at the link below...
"The Department of Justice is arguing that there are simply too many comments to publish on paper, despite the legal requirement to do so.)"
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Naah, the real reason is who wants to see a printed version of the goat sex dude 600 times?
Although, what ever floats your boat
Sent from your iPad.
I just seen an advert for Microsoft visual studio .net on SLASHDOT! The subject says it all!
The real reason that they dont want to print the comments is that I am sure 95% of the e-mail submitted articles come from Lunix Zealots demanding that Micro$oft suxs and that the gibs0n should be hacked. Hell, thats what I wrote in my 500 emails that I sent.
Hack the gibs0n!!!
Granted this is a couple orders of magnitude smaller in scale, but the Canadian government published all the more than 700 "Canadian DMCA" comments it got, even the one from The Edifying Fellowship of Ook.
You can't post anti MS comments by using MS FrontPage to publish.
Hopefully the DOJ doesn't use FrontPage to publish.
I can see it now...
"Frist Ps0t! I 0wNz j0o Ge0Rg3 \/\/!"
The gift of death metal does not smile on the good looking.
Perhaps it is time for the Government to create, adopt or otherwise standadize a system to allow registered voters to discuss and debate on current issues and policies.
:-)
Something like Slashdot, but the people who run the show would be our elected politicans instead of our current dictatorship
And on the floor of the US Senate:
"Mr. President Pro Tem, I would like to point out that many of my constituents are 1337 h4xx0r5 and want the president to post his rear end in a "goatse.cx-ian" manner!
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
So, 30000 comments via email. I wonder if 29000 of them were from hotmail addresses. And if so, I'll be we know where THEY came from, eh?