Slashdot: Miers supported Microsoft against consumers re: defective swr

[DBoon]

Link:
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/10/04/1346255.shtml?tid=123&tid=219

Bush Supreme Court Nominee Former Microsoft Lawyer
Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday October 04, @09:55AM
from the well-thats-one-way-to-get-at-this-story dept.

DaveM writes "Bush's most recent Supreme Court nominee, Harriet Miers, successfully argued that people who were sold defective software by Microsoft weren't "injured," and couldn't participate in a class action against the company. The case involved unstable compression features in MS DOS 6.0, which were corrected by a $9.95 update, MS DOS 6.2. Plaintiffs wanted Microsoft to offer the updates for free, but eventually lost to Miers' arguments."

The blog entry describing this in detail is:
http://www.slingshot.org/?p=135

Leave it to Slashdot to bring up her pro-corporate/anti-consumer advocacy.

[SpiralHawk]

1. Geeks Against Miers !

Forming Soon in a CyberSpace Near You

Get your Geek on !

[maine_raptor]

2. Weren't injured????

When I was working for a local paper mill, we had a BIG problem with that flaw. Took several days of recreating data and a lot of overtime. Had to miss the opening day of Deer Season that year because of it (Ask any Mainer how much that hurts).

And she defended them??? That's enough for me, I'm again' her!!!

[skids]

3. Data loss is psychologically traumatizing.

Say what you will about "they should have kept backups," but when it does happen, data loss like that driver bug caused is a big trauma inducer. I wouldn't be surprised if heart attacks have resulted in a few cases.

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=17355