David Boies
David Boies
David Boiesis an American lawyer and chairman of the law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner. He has been involved in various high-profile cases in the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth11 March 1941
CountryUnited States of America
blanket continue evidence exit microsoft netscape pattern strategy
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.
basis court owned prior restraint upheld
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.
compete nowhere
But they don't come out of nowhere to compete with Windows. Not in 12 years.
word
What is it about the word 'concerned' that you don't understand?
agencies court positions shut trying willing written
What is going on is AIG is trying to shut down the Starr agencies as competitors, and that AIG is willing to take positions in court that are inconsistent with written contracts, and internally inconsistent.
telling understand
You don't? ... Is that what you're telling me? You don't understand what that means?
achieve both necessity pleased
Both Mr. Shandling and I are very pleased with the settlement. We're very pleased we could achieve it without the necessity of a trial.
company likely potential
What company is most likely to be a potential entrant for operating-system competition?
divorce totally
This summer, we're going to totally divorce Sun.
technology data people
Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads.
simple shade complicated
It is easy to be accurate if you have the freedom to be complicated, and it is very easy to be simple if you have the freedom to shade the truth. What's hard is to be simple and very accurate, and that takes work to figure out what are the simple truths that are going to sustain your case.
home audio copying
The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful.
thinking important napster
When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only for the music industry but for the whole Internet.
lawyer cases
Obviously Im a lawyer; I like to have cases.