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> <Quote>
> So, guess what has been happening in the Novell v. Microsoft
> antitrust litigation? A battle over deposing Bill Gates. I have the
> transcript for you of the half-deposition that happened already. Yay!
>
> Total fun. Performance art. After the deposition, came the fireworks.
> The parties fought about doing the other half.
>
> Billg, as you'll see him referred to in the exhibits, well, at the
> deposition, he don't know nuttin'... Asked if he knows what the term
> evangelizing meant as used by Microsoft, his first answer was that
> it's used in different ways by different people. His answer when he is
> pressed for his understanding of the purpose of evangelizing is that
> it's "usually to convert somebody to a religion belief." Right. That's
> the ticket.
>
> He must have forgotten the 1997 "Evangelism is War" confidential
> Microsoft memo.
>
> Guess what the subject matter at issue is now? Interoperability. Or
> more exactly, extensibility, shell extensibility in Windows 95. This
> is the litigation over WordPerfect, if you recall, and the charge is
> that Microsoft deliberately withheld documentation to make it harder
> for competitors like Novell to compete. Like *that* would ever happen.
> What? Further, Novell's claim is that it was Bill Gates who personally
> decided to "de-document" certain shell extensions. Just as they were
> getting to that topic at the half-deposition, Novell tells the judge,
> Microsoft unilaterally halted the proceedings.
>
> Don't be lulled by this all happening more than a decade ago. Instead
> think about the latest interoperability fiasco, Microsoft's non-
> interoperable ODF "support" in Office 2007 SP2, and see if the dots
> align. Plus ça change, y'all....
>
> Well. And I would equally respectfully submit, judging from this
> letter, that it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that Microsoft
> must send its lawyers to the same charm school as its trolls and
> shills. I think SCOfolk got to attend on a scholarship, IIRC....
>
> The Gates Half-Day Deposition:
>
> Oooh. Oooh. Let's do. Here it is, Exhibit A [PDF].
>
> How very much Mr. Gates does not know! Could that explain Microsoft
> Vista?...
>
> Ah! Now I see what Novell might have been doing. For example, on page
> 4 (subsection 6, top left), the lawyer asks Gates if he considers
> himself an expert on litigation. No, says the very busy man. He does
> not. So the lawyer shows him an exhibit, an email authored by Mr.
> Gates in which he says he's an expert in litigation in an email to
> Ballmer 14 years ago:
>
> "I generally try and worry only about the things I have special
> expertise on (lawsuits, patents, technology, internet) and a few big
> things we all know about (novell perfect office, lotus notes,
> smartSuite)," close quote.
>
> "Does that refresh your recollection, Mr. Gates, that you profess
> special expertise with respects to lawsuits?"
>
> "Yeah...."
>
> See what I mean? This is performance art. It just doesn't work in a
> deposition or a courtroom.
> </Quote>
>
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090523231352189
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