SCO fizzles

[Joel Hammer]

Do you think SCO is pulling a typical lawyers trick? Trying to pollute
the jury pool? Anybody who is remotely aware of technical issues will
hear all about these issues long before the trial, thus making them
ineligible for the jury.

I recall well some years ago a big time criminal lawyer in New York City
interviewed in the NY Times (I believe). He said in the interview his
clients are always guilty. He never defends innocent clients. At the time
I couldn't imagine why he would say that in a well read newspaper. Years
later I finally realized why. Anybody who reads the NY Times could be
disqualified from the jury. That would remove most intelligent, educated
people from his juries in NY city. Nice trick.

I also realize now the NY Times should never had allowed themselves to be
used in this way.

Joel
 


ROn Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 07:10:13PM -0400, Kurt Wall wrote:
> Quoth Alma J Wetzker:
> > >Joel Hammer <Joel at hammershome.com> Thu, 21 Aug 2003 21:50:19 -0400
> > >
> > >Yes, but what will the jury think?
> > >Joel
> > >
> > >On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 07:21:49PM -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
> > >
> > >>http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/smoking-fizzle.html
> > 
> > That is the $3,000,000,000.00 question.  It is a VERY safe bet that SCO 
> > will remove any juror that uses a computer, let alone can read code.  So 
> > it all comes down to which expert witness is prettier.
> 
> Which pretty much removes ESR and RMS from the running. :-) That
> said, self-promotion notwithstanding, ESR is very good at making
> complex technical issues clear. However, this is not about complex
> _technical_ issues, but, rather, about IBM's alleged contract 
> violoations. SCOs trial-by-press-release is calcualated attempt
> to cloud the core legal issue: did IBM subvert the contract or not?
> 
> Kurt
> -- 
> Entropy isn't what it used to be.
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