– You are an econometrician of some renown? Lacovara asked Fisher. I have been and I supposed I still am an econometrician, Fisher replied. The renown is not for me to decide …but thank you.
– A Goldman Sachs document reported that Netscape distributed 160 million browsers last year – that’s 1.6 for every person now on the internet. Lacovara insisted that Fisher must accept the figure, but he did not. I don’t think they believe it. I don’t think you believe it, he said. To which Lacovara rather surprisingly responded: Maybe I don’t. But not for the reasons you think.
– Lacovara presented an article printed off the web and had to apologize for a banner ad of an unsavory nature displayed above the text. Ever-startling in his technical savvy, the judge said: I have to wonder what sort of cookies you’re running.
– Judge Jackson has been intrigued by market projections from International Data Corp that have been presented as evidence. Told that networked gaming devices will outsell net TVs in 2002, he wondered: How could any organization make predictions like these with a straight face?
