Groklaw Putting Comes v. Microsoft Docs Online

An anonymous reader writes "PJ of Groklaw is working on putting the documents from Comes v. Microsoft online, to make them searchable and accessible to everyone. If you don't remember their history, the plaintiffs got these documents from Microsoft during discovery after fighting the lawyers tooth and nail. After realizing how embarrassing the documents were to Microsoft, they put them online and later got a very large settlement from Microsoft by agreeing to take their website down. The web being what it is, these documents had already been mirrored and were later (legally) made available on the Pirate Bay. Now Groklaw has put them online and is looking for people to help transcribe them, so that documents like the infamous Evangelism is War presentation will not be forgotten."

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Re:Unbiased this will not be.

[causality]

Rest assured that any information that isn't negative to Microsoft will be posted last if at all. GL/PJ isn't exactly know for being an unbiased source - she will say/do anything to keep the hits/money coming in.

That's a great balance against the marketing and PR that Microsoft spends a great deal of money producing. All of their marketing and PR is completely biased, of course. It would be reasonable to complain about GL being biased the moment Microsoft's marketing fully discloses, with equal emphasis and prominence, all disadvantages and downsides of all of their products in addition to their advantages and benefits. Until then, such a balance that PJ is providing is a welcome and useful thing.

Re:B.b.b..but, M$....

[jthill]

You know, there was a time when the American public education system was a wonder of the world.

Nations sent their best and brightest to be educated at public universities here, and those public universities got their pick of students from all over the world, and among the best were those educated at our public high schools.

Because our educational institutions, public and private, taught students to _think_.

Feynmann described the faults in other nations' educational systems this way, in "Surely You're Joking":

After the lecture, I talked to a student: "You take all those notes -- what do you do with them?"

"Oh, we study them," he says. "We'll have an exam."

That now describes our own grammar and high schools.

Perhaps you didn't know that it wasn't always that way, that the government you blame for poor public education produced the finest public education system in the history of the world.

Perhaps you also didn't know that that government (which many take as an article of faith to be incompetent at everything) also built the finest military in the history of the world?

And that it also built the finest public highway system in the history of the world?

And the finest public water supply in the history of the world?

And, if we start from the premise that government policy can have a major or even dominant effect on the health of an economy, that it built the most powerfuul economy in the history of the world?

If we don't admit that last premise, then why argue about tax rates at all?

Because during the era of all those roaring successes, the top marginal tax rate was up around ninety percent.

And that little paean to the things government is good at, is meant for, does right when supplied with faith and loyalty, relegates to the b-list other, more minor achievements.

Like taking humanity to the moon.

Like "the most unsordid act in history".

I could go on, of course, and on.

But the point remains: our government, its principles, its premise, its creed, is what made this nation great. Its constitution defines America.

So when you sneer at it, perhaps you'd like to consider the question of why you hate it so.