Do you have any special agenda to get across or have anything for/against Microsoft that would make it so you were not impartial in your oversight of any federal rulings? As much as most people hate them this needs to be done in a fair and impartial way. WIll you be able to be fair and impartial?
Microsoft will set a team of lawyers to find every exploitable loophole in the court order which lets you oversee them. They will balk you, they will delay you, they will drag their heels at every possible opportunity; they will give you the bare minimum of help that they're required to give you; and in every situation where you even hint at any possible less-than-upright dealings on their part, they will cry from the mountaintops about how biased you are against them.
Their ultimate goal will be to get you to grumble about them -- and then they can go back to the government and use that as evidence that you're in fact not impartial, and you'll be out of their hair. It worked against a federal judge; it could work against you.
Why do you believe you're up to the task of sitting on the shoulder of this eight-hundred-pound gorilla while it flings monkey dung at you? Why should we believe that you'll be able to work with them, unwilling as they are, and be able to point out their illegal business practices without appearing to be biased against them?
What makes you the best man for the job? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:What makes you the best man for the job? (Score:5, Insightful)
Microsoft will set a team of lawyers to find every exploitable loophole in the court order which lets you oversee them. They will balk you, they will delay you, they will drag their heels at every possible opportunity; they will give you the bare minimum of help that they're required to give you; and in every situation where you even hint at any possible less-than-upright dealings on their part, they will cry from the mountaintops about how biased you are against them.
Their ultimate goal will be to get you to grumble about them -- and then they can go back to the government and use that as evidence that you're in fact not impartial, and you'll be out of their hair. It worked against a federal judge; it could work against you.
Why do you believe you're up to the task of sitting on the shoulder of this eight-hundred-pound gorilla while it flings monkey dung at you? Why should we believe that you'll be able to work with them, unwilling as they are, and be able to point out their illegal business practices without appearing to be biased against them?