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Amazon is seeking a court order that would prevent Microsoft from doing work for the US Department of Defense under a contract that Amazon says was awarded improperly.
[...] Amazon alleges that the president "launched repeated public and behind-the-scenes attacks to steer the JEDI Contract away from AWS [Amazon Web Services] to harm his perceived political enemy—Jeffrey P. Bezos," the founder and CEO of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post.
Amazon and the US have agreed to an expedited briefing schedule, in part to consider a motion for a restraining order or preliminary injunction that Amazon intends to file. A joint status report filed in court yesterday by Amazon, the US government, and Microsoft described what's happening next in the case:
AWS intends to file a motion for temporary restraining order and/or preliminary injunction to prevent the issuance of substantive task orders under the contract, which the United States has previously advised AWS and the Court will begin on February 11, 2020, given the United States' consistent position that the services to be procured under the Contract are urgently needed in support of national security. The parties have agreed to an expedited briefing schedule on the issue of preliminary injunctive relief, and respectfully request that the Court expedite consideration of the issue, as described below.
[...] both the US and Microsoft "intend to file partial motions to dismiss" the case, the status report said.
[...] The status report also says that the US government "does not intend to file an answer to AWS's complaint." Instead, "the parties will file cross-motions for judgment on the administrative record."
[...] Trump "escalated his intervention, jettisoning any appearance of impartiality by making clear to DoD (and to the world) that he did not want AWS to get the JEDI Contract," the lawsuit said.
Is it wrong to root for Microsoft to win?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday January 15 2020, @04:46PM (5 children)
They do not appear to lead to any working web site. Could it be due to uMatrix?
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(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday January 15 2020, @04:57PM (4 children)
Probably. With uBlock Origin I can load them fine.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday January 15 2020, @05:05PM (3 children)
I'll stop worrying that they are anything dangerous. Thanks for the info.
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 15 2020, @08:02PM
you might want to unblock archive.is -- it's sort of a clone of archive.org , may have the old page you are looking for if the Wayback machine doesn't have it.
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Thursday January 16 2020, @08:24PM (1 child)
if there is another filedrop you prefer, let me know ill upload them.
the more archiving the better for my work.
archive.is is critical though you should know it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 16 2020, @10:55PM
Feed them into the Wayback Machine on archive.org, that way the original URL gets preserved too, which results in less obfuscation of the source that way. Heck, make your own WARCs, MHTMLs, and ZIPs and upload them into a collection there yourself.