2 posts and columns on Thomas Penfield Jackson

MicroHoo: The Not-So-Bored Meeting!

in News on April 11, 2008 at 2:16 am PT

Yes, the board of Yahoo is meeting today to try to devise new and more dastardly ways of wringing more money out of Microsoft. For viewers just tuning in, so far this week on “As the Tiny-Incestuous-Petty-Juvenile-Digital World Turns,” Yahoo has been plenty busy: An AOL mashup deal! A Google search-ad partnership! Even–cue the trumpets!!!–the late entrance of that man-about-Silicon-Valley from Web 1.0, Frank Quattrone, working for Google, which is helping Yahoo on AOL (and, fun, snake-eating-itself fact: as a banker, Quattrone worked for Yahoo when it was contemplating buying eBay). This is so deliciously sweet, in terms of geek soap opera, that I fear I may get a major cavity soon.

Swear to God, Your Honor, We Once Heard Ballmer Say Something About 'Cutting Off Google Desktop's Air Supply'

in News on June 11, 2007 at 2:36 pm PT

In an interview conducted in the aftermath of his landmark antitrust ruling against Microsoft in 2000, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson justified his blistering final order mandating the breakup of Microsoft in this way: “Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus”–untrue in one thing, untrue in everything. His point: “conduct remedies” could not be counted on to [...]