Transcript of USA: MICROSOFT ANTI TRUST TRIAL: BILL GATES TESTIMONY
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0:07yours0:21was and there's no I'm not aware of any0:26any agreement other than the 1997 one0:36is the threat to cancel MC office 97 is0:39certainly the strongest bargaining point0:41we have as doing so will do a great deal0:44of harm to Apple immediately I also0:47believe that apple is taking this threat0:49pretty seriously close0:58quote quote do we have a clear plan on1:02what we want Apple to do to undermine1:05sun close quotes did you send this email1:10Mr Gates honor about August 8th1:131997 I don't remember sending1:25it uh would it be consistent with the1:28way you felt about Java for you to have1:30told people that you wanted to undermine1:32son did you have discussions with apple1:38um in which you were trying to get apple1:41to agree to help you undermine1:55Sun are you aware of any instances2:00in which representatives of Microsoft2:02have met with2:04competitors uh in an attempt to allocate2:07markets2:09objection I'm not a aware of any such2:12thing and I know it's very much against2:15uh the way we operate it would be2:17against company policy to do that that's2:19right try or fact can make his or her2:22own valuation of the uh uh fundamentally2:27the issue in this case is what did2:30Microsoft do and what was Microsoft's2:33intent um what the chief executive2:37officer of the corporation says is2:40obviously relevant to both of those2:42issues uh and uh one of the things that2:45uh will have to be evaluated is to what2:48extent do you accept uh his2:50justification for what is done uh to2:53what extent do you accept the2:54explanation or to what extent do you not2:56but before we get to that I want to2:58introduce uh for former US attorney3:01Joseph de Geneva who has agreed to serve3:04as a consultant this case was not3:06brought to benefit consumers this case3:09was brought to benefit a handful of3:11Microsoft's competitors the government3:14has not shown and cannot show any3:17consumer3:21harmil a wonderful job including a major3:24Vic
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