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Technology failures...
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 18 2012 @ 08:02 AM EDT
It could also be a bog-standard DVD player. It's entirely possible for one of those to have trouble reading a disc.

In fact, I once had to replace the DVD-ROM drive in my parents' computer because it refused to read some DVDs in their collection that played fine in my PowerBook. Ironically, that same drive is excellent at reading sub-par CDs. I currently keep it in an old PC that doesn't need to read DVDs.

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Technology failures...
Authored by: stegu on Monday, June 18 2012 @ 11:11 AM EDT
> It would be rather amusing if their OS would not even
> perform properly in a trial involving them.

It would be even more amusing (but also scary) if their
OS would specifically not perform properly when used in
a trial to present testimony that was negative to MS.

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Simulation of a Court using a decade of Linux
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 18 2012 @ 02:31 PM EDT

MS Representation:

    I appologize for the hiccup your honor. Technology is a wonderful thing. But it's also highly complicated. This kind of thing happens all the time.
Judge:
    Perhaps to you. We've [the Court] been using FLOSS software now for slightly over a decade. We've never had a glitch occur.
One can dream :)

RAS

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