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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (20771)	8/28/1998 7:56:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

Gates Questioned in Antitrust Case nytimes.com One attorney, speaking on condition of anonymity, said lawyers repeatedly asked Gates questions in different ways to elicit straightforward answers but that Gates was ''evasive and non-responsive.'' A Microsoft spokesman, Mark Murray, responded: ''The facts don't support the government's case, so it's not surprising that the government doesn't want to hear the facts.'' Sort of a Regimondish leap of logic there by old Mark Murray. Or maybe Bill just seemed evasive and non-responsive, when he was actually delivering the, uh, facts or lack thereof. Anyway, with all this revisionist history going on, facts are stupid things. The Seattle Times reported that Gates told the government during Thursday's deposition that he knew nothing about a reported attempt to persuade rival Netscape Communications Corp. to divide the market for Internet browsers. The Justice Department and 20 state attorneys general contend that Microsoft met with Netscape in May 1995 and offered to divide the market for Internet browsers. Citing a deposition with Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, the government alleged that Microsoft offered not to make browsers except for Windows 95 if Netscape agreed not to make browsers for Windows or to help design rival operating systems. Gates previously called the allegation about collusion ''an outrageous lie.'' He said the 1995 meeting ''was to discuss various technologies Microsoft proposed sharing with Netscape, so that Netscape's browser could take advantage of the cool new features we were developing for Windows 95.'' Well, saying he knew nothing sounds a lot better than that last line. That May '95 meeting was just before me favorite current Wisdom of Bill quote, of course: At one point, Slivka proposed that Microsoft give away some software on the Net, as Netscape was doing. Gates, he recalls, ''called me a communist.'' Cheers, Dan.