In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 06/26/2006
at 03:51 PM, "Pommier, Rex R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>So let me see if I get this straight. Western Digital sold disk
>drives that they tagged as 80 GB. They used 1,000,000,000 bytes per
>GB instead of the binary number. Somebody got confused and decided
>to sue.
Why didn't the WD lawyers trot out the SI standard? This should have
been a summary judgement for the defendant.
Or were they playing games with formatted versus unformatted?
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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