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Bush Supreme Court Nominee Former Microsoft Lawyer

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-thats-one-way-to-get-at-this-story dept.

DaveM writes "Bush's most recent Supreme Court nominee, Harriet Miers, successfully argued that people who were sold defective software by Microsoft weren't "injured," and couldn't participate in a class action against the company. The case involved unstable compression features in MS DOS 6.0, which were corrected by a $9.95 update, MS DOS 6.2. Plaintiffs wanted Microsoft to offer the updates for free, but eventually lost to Miers' arguments."

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  1. So What? by ninja_pirate · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Microsoft (who has billions of dollars to spend on any lawyer they want) chose her to argue their case and she won. All this means is that MS thinks she's a dang good lawyer and then she proved she was a dang good lawyer. Big whoop.

  2. Re:you seemed to pigeon hole her pretty good by khallow · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So what? The grandparent poster clearly doesn't buy into the liberal/multicultural ideology. His pidgeon-holing powers aren't impaired!

  3. Re:If you were dumb enuff to use DOS ... by Arcane_Rhino · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Agree with you 100%.