Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 18:40:09 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NatWest? no thanks Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20011103183339.04ba6690@localhost> In-Reply-To: <15332.35855.130990.367688@guru.mired.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20011103170327.051b5f00@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20011102153937.0434b8a0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20011102132958.051040c0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20011101223208.00b3ec20@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20011101190545.03ed6330@localhost> <20011101164226.B47017@jake.akitanet.co.uk> <4.3.2.7.2.20011103170327.051b5f00@localhost>
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At 05:30 PM 11/3/2001, Mike Meyer wrote: >So why did AOL go to court with The National Federation for the Blind? Because, unlike the DoJ, the Federation doesn't have infinite financial resources and Time Warner has billions. Also, the Federation tends to settle for fewer accommodations than its rival, the American Council of the Blind. So, AOL is probably quite glad to have an opportunity to participate in a case where it can exhaust its opponent's resources and then go for a weak settlement. >And where are all the web sites that have been fixed, or cases that >have been settled out of court because of this. A suit is rarely even filed. For example, a DoJ team came to our local City Hall not long ago and demanded all sorts of accommodations, some of them unreasonable. No suit was filed and it didn't even make the papers. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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