__/ [ 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.
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