Re: [seul-edu] [Fwd: Re: Request for critique of a MS rebuttal]

[Leon Brooks <leon@brooks.fdns.net>]

On Saturday 04 May 2002 06:20, Douglas Loss wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: Dean Pannell <dinotrac@dinotrac.com>
> To: Douglas Loss <drloss@suscom.net>
> At that point, the line "So sue me" sounds good.   Threats are only
> good when people are afraid of them.  If Microsoft actually sued on
> something as stupid as that, I would love to see someone stand by
> their guns and sue for malicious prosecution and Rule 7 (or state
> equivalent) recovery.

> Ferderal Rule 7 is (or used to be, remember, I'm an old rust-bucket)
> is the law requiring that a lawyer certifiy that an action being
> brought comes under Federal Law or a reasonable extension thereof.
> Something like this is so lame I would take the Rule 7 flier.  Nice
> thing about Rule 7 is that you can get a judgment against the lawyers
> as well as their client.

Now THAT is an attractive proposition... (-: Anyone have any idea how we'd go 
about provoking such a situation? :-)

Cheers; Leon