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To: mozek who wrote (11658)	10/22/1998 6:25:00 PM
From: XiaoYao	of 74651

Microsoft Atty-2: Angered Exchange With Barksdale In Court 10/22/98 Dow Jones News Service (Copyright (c) 1998, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) lead attorney John Warden accused Netscape Communications Corp. (NSCP) of fabricating the claim that Microsoft executives proposed dividing the browser market in 1995. The only fair conclusion is Netscape executive "Marc Andreessen invented or imagined a proposal to divide markets, and you and your company have signed onto this proposal or concoction" for this lawsuit, Warden told Netscape Chief Executive James Barksdale at the Microsoft antitrust trial. Warden's accusation came as sparks began to fly during afternoon cross-examination. An angered Barksdale shot back quickly as he concluded a third day of testimony. "I know what I know," Barksdale said, maintaining his claim that Microsoft executives urged a division of the browser market at a June 21, 1995 meeting. "I was in the meeting." Anytime you draw a line separating where companies can compete, "it's dividing a market," Barksdale said. It was "a clear threat they were going to give away a product that we were going to get a majority of our revenue from." But Warden quickly took issue with the claim of a threat. "Is a statement of fact a threat?" he asked. "Are people prohibited by the antitrust law from stating what their business plans are?" --- Barksdale has spent "three years lobbying the government to take action on Microsoft", he has to be ready to take some more heat.

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