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Microsoft Settlement Comments

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the settle-for-the-children dept.

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.)

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  1. So Logically . . . by SanLouBlues · · Score: 1, Troll

    So they say that to obey the law would be illogical because it would waste money and paper? So why is ElcomSoft being prosecuted? Or better yet, why does the treasury print new money? It's all paper and will be shredded and burnt in a few years anyways. So it's all wasted. Ha!

  2. My money says by CitznFish · · Score: -1, Troll

    M$ sent in 99% of those comments and /. regulars sent in the remaining 1%. I mean, come on, who else really cares about this stuff anyway? Sheeeeeeeeple....

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  3. pathetic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    All you hippie Microsoft-bashers get to add tree-killing to your list of good deeds for the world.

  4. Re:Slashdot for Government! by maxpublic · · Score: 0, Troll

    right-wing conservatives *and* far-left liberals. Both are loud, obnoxious, and should be committed to a mental health institution or deported to a small Pacific island.

    Max

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    My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions?
  5. Re:Slashdot for Government! by mosch · · Score: 0, Troll

    Your views are unacceptably fascist. You will be shot.

  6. Re:being a kde fan... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    the KDE league??

    hahahahaw!

    'We represent, the lollipop guild, the lollipop guild, the lollipop guild. And in the name of, the lollipop guild...'

    hahahahaw! What cards!

  7. Bill Gates by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Has proven just how inovative he is in the laws of the court even the DOJ trembles in the very boots he walks in, why when I met him in venice beach when I was a scrawnly little peon just like the rest of you all working in C, BASIC and logo I urinated in my pants at his mere thoughts. Now all of you bottom feading troglomites and morpheopod atotomtons dare question his judgment, how could you even come to know how it is to be him f you all f you all good with a barbwire baseball bat right up the ass without vascoline or K-Y.

    I'll see you in stergus

    "Everyone has the rite to be stupid, some just abuse this privlage"