Dude he learned Java for a court case? My respect for this man grows immense. What a G.
I wish more people were like this "I need some more domain-knowledge to understand what's at stake? no problem, let me do some learning." Excellent attitude.
> The judge is interested in learning the basic technology and learning publicly known art. This would be a good opportunity for a young lawyer to present in court.
How thoughtful to promote young lawyers like that! Nice judge.
Word Perfect is used for many court cases because it is the only WYSIWYG word processor that paginates footnotes according to the US legal rules. In fact, it had a lock on the DoJ market for ages (and maybe still does) based solely on that. Word could never accommodate it because it breaks backwards compatibility (and whatever you say about MS's shady past, this is something that they stuck to even though it cost them a fair amount). I worked on WP when Corel first acquired it...