95 Quotes by David Boies


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    What Microsoft set out to do through these contracts, and largely succeeded for the time they were in effect, was to deprive consumers of the right to choose between Microsoft and Navigator.

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    There is evidence of what we see here is an exit strategy for Netscape -- that because of the blanket Microsoft has put over it, Netscape was not able to continue its pattern of innovation.

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    What is being done here on the basis of what we think is a very over-broad prior restraint is to forbid, in a way that no appellate court has ever upheld before, a distribution of intellectual information, intellectual knowledge, owned by the person who is distributing it.

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    I think, your honor, you could say -- and this is not that different from what we have argued -- that as long as the manual recounts will not impair the final certification in time to permit the selection of electors by December 12, that those manual recounts must be included.

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    I think when you have as many lawyers that are involved on both sides, there is a danger that they all try to find something to do.

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    Microsoft had an opportunity to ask any questions it wanted to about the nature of those sensitive business discussions. Unless Microsoft wants to claim that, like some indigent criminal defendants, they are unable to procure competent counsel on their own, it's really up to them to ask those questions.

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    Well, if you're winning browser share, that must mean that some other company is producing browsers and you're comparing your share of browsers with somebody else's share of browsers, ... Is that not so, sir?

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