__/ [ Mateus Denigris ] on Sunday 11 February 2007 20:22 \__
> On 2007-02-11, Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> __/ [ spike1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Sunday 11 February 2007 09:59 \__
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:
>>>> Gates deposition videos
>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>> | Boies: Do you remember that in January, 1996, a lot of OEMs were
>>>> | bundling non-Microsoft browsers?
>>>> |
>>>> | Gates: I'm not sure.
>>>> |
>>>> | Boies: What were the non-Microsoft browsers that you were
>>>> | concerned about in January of 1996?
>>>> |
>>>> | Gates: What's the question? You're trying to get me to recall
>>>> | what other browsers I was thinking about when I wrote that sentence?
>>>> |
>>>> | Boies: No, because you've told me that you don't know what you
>>>> | were thinking about when you wrote that sentence.
>>>> |
>>>> | Gates: Right.
>>>> |
>>>> | Boies: What I'm trying to do is get you to tell me what
>>>> | non-Microsoft browsers you were concerned about in January of
>>>> | 1996. If it had been only one, I probably would have used the
>>>> | name of it. Instead I seem to be using the term non-Microsoft
>>>> | browsers. My question is what non-Microsoft browsers were you
>>>> | concerned about in January of 1996?
>>>> |
>>>> | Gates: I'm sure -- what's the question? Is it -- are you asking
>>>> | me about when I wrote this e-mail or what are you asking me about?
>>>> |
>>>> | Boies: I'm asking you about January of 1996.
>>>> |
>>>> | Gates: That month?
>>>> |
>>>> | Boies: Yes, sir.
>>>> |
>>>> | Gates: And what about it?
>>>> |
>>>> | Boies: What non-Microsoft browsers were you concerned about in
>>>> | January of 1996?
>>>> |
>>>> | Gates: I don't know what you mean "concerned."
>>>> |
>>>> | Boies: What is it about the word "concerned" that you don't
>>>> | understand?
>>>> |
>>>> | Gates: I'm not sure what you mean by it.
>>>> `----
>>>
>>> Yeah, I have the video footage. It's hilarious.
>>> How he thought he could get away with trying to not understand plain
>>> english is beyond me... he kept it up for hours, evading questions by
>>> trying to misunderstand them or not understand the most simple grammar.
>>
>> Maybe he was trying to make the footage so long and tedious that nobody
>> would bother to watch him admitting that he's as guilty as OJ.
>>
>
> Does that mean we should be chanting, "No justice, no peace!" ;-)
Coming from a lawyer/diplomat family, I don't think he understands any of
these terms (neither peace nor justice). *smile*
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