As Mr. Bumble said in Oliver Twist, "The law is an ass." What he meant is that the law focuses entirely on precedent, which is an ancient, pathetic stand-in for the glorious modern phrase backward compatibility. In the English-speaking world, the law tries to be backward compatible all the way to the Magna Carta in 1215. Software values new technology more than backward compatibility.Author: Phil Lemmons
Title of the article: "The Browser War: Justice and Microsoft"
Source of the article: PC World (or PC World)
Date of the article's publication: February, 1998
Page number(s) on which the article appeared: 19
Write a short paragraph about this article. Express an opinion about anything about the article, even if you don't understand what in the world it is about. It doesn't matter whether or not you understand what the writer is writing; what matters is that someone who reads what you write understand what you are writing.
1) Your paragraph should be autonomous. What I mean by "autonomous" is that someone who reads your paragraph can make sense of it without reading the paragraph you are writing about (the one written by Mr. Lemmons);2) You must refer to Mr. Lemmons' use of the statement by Mr. Bumble;
3) You must begin your paragraph in a manner that is interesting. What do I mean by "interesting"? I mean that you must use one of the standard introductory techniques that you learned from English 101.
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