Comments on: Bad day for good government http://rc3.org/2008/02/18/bad-day-for-good-government/ Strong opinions weakly held Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:37:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Thomas Brownback http://rc3.org/2008/02/18/bad-day-for-good-government/comment-page-1/#comment-2396 Thomas Brownback Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:44:50 +0000 http://rc3.org/2008/02/18/bad-day-for-good-government/#comment-2396 <p>The updated info from Froomkin renders my last comment moot.</p> <p>Thanks for the update!</p> The updated info from Froomkin renders my last comment moot.

Thanks for the update!

]]> By: Thomas Brownback http://rc3.org/2008/02/18/bad-day-for-good-government/comment-page-1/#comment-2394 Thomas Brownback Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:55:14 +0000 http://rc3.org/2008/02/18/bad-day-for-good-government/#comment-2394 <p>I just took a quick glance, but I think this WikiLinks thing is a judicial "order" in name only. It looks like a typical settlement agreement, probably offered by DynaDot, who likely went to the Plaintiff and said "if we take down the DNS records can you leave us out of this?" DynaDot likely had a strong case, if not rock solid, but that doesn't prevent them from bargaining their way out of the suit however they see fit.</p> <p>I'm not a lawyer (at least not yet), but the jargon might be making this look like something it's not.</p> I just took a quick glance, but I think this WikiLinks thing is a judicial “order” in name only. It looks like a typical settlement agreement, probably offered by DynaDot, who likely went to the Plaintiff and said “if we take down the DNS records can you leave us out of this?” DynaDot likely had a strong case, if not rock solid, but that doesn’t prevent them from bargaining their way out of the suit however they see fit.

I’m not a lawyer (at least not yet), but the jargon might be making this look like something it’s not.

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