Re: Apology accepted (Re: [ga-roots] Re: Criminalization of alt roots)

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:12:41AM -0700, Simon Higgs wrote:
[...]
> Listening to Dave Crocker's imagination is a huge mistake. ;-) Here's the 
> reality. The case was not argued correctly, IMHO. The grounds for the case 
> were perfectly valid. The IAHC/CORE were stealing the intellectual property 
> and goodwill that IOD had created for .WEB. This was a bad thing that the 
> lawsuit succeeding in stopping.
> 
> In the Judge's words, "[IOD] has not met its burden of proof to establish a 
> reasonable likelihood of prevailing on the merits of Image Online's claims 
> at the time of trial" was the Judge's way of saying "you guys are dorks - I 
> know you're right, but your case is full of holes - go away and come back 
> with a stronger case."

You got the part about "dorks" right.  

> So IOD dropped the case without prejudice allowing 
> them to come back and sue at a later date.

Which they did, and lost again -- this time I guess they are appealing.

-- 
Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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