Following is very funny (but true) just arrived in a news release from Rick Ross of Java Lobby fame (I was once on the committee).

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did - it is so easy to picture the unfolding scenario ...

Cheers

Doug


Subpoenaed by Microsoft

Little Old Lady At The Door
I took my wife, Elizabeth, and our two daughters out for Thai
food last night, and when we got home there was a car with
two little old ladies driving very slowly by our house. It was
weird, the kind of thing you notice and wonder about. We
pulled into the garage, and a couple of minutes later the
doorbell rang. Sure enough, it was one of the little old ladies
who had been driving by. Elizabeth answered the door, and
they had a pleasant conversation for a minute, then the lady asked if Mr. Ross
was around? I went to the front door, and the lady said she was there to drop off
some papers. She was a process server for Microsoft's attorneys, and I had been
subpoenaed in Sun's civil antitrust case against Microsoft.

Everything and the Kitchen Sink
"YOU ARE COMMANDED to produce and permit inspection and copying of the
following documents or objects at the place, date and time specified below..."
says the very official looking paperwork. It then goes on to list a laundry list of
"documents" that feels like everything I ever wrote or received, including my grade
school report cards. It's an outrage, and typical of the harassment tactics that
high-paid corporate lawyers use to aggravate and deter those would oppose
them. Well, the hassle-tactics may be enough to make me aggravated, but I
damned well will not be deterred! None of us should be, this matter of Microsoft's
illegal behavior years ago is still impacting every one of us today, perhaps more
than ever. I'll obey the court and provide what is required, but I will not back away
from my conviction that Microsoft deliberately abused its monopoly power to
suppress and undermine the adoption of client-side Java.