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...opening statement, Boies tried to give the court a glimpse of the darker Gates. At Boies' signal, Gates appeared on the courtroom video monitors denying the government's crucial charge that Microsoft tried to buy off Netscape, its archrival in the Internet browser business. "Somebody asked if it made sense investing in Netscape, and I said it didn't make any sense," Gates said, in a clip from his August 1998 deposition. But a moment later, the video monitors were displaying a seemingly contradictory 1995 e-mail, in which Gates wrote of Netscape, "We could give them money as part...
...defense of divide-and-conquer tactics by showing that AOL and Netscape appeared to be up to the same thing -- just months after an alleged share-the-market meeting between Netscape and Microsoft. Cited: An internal AOL document describing a multimillion-dollar offer to Netscape to license its browser software and "create a vision to compete with Microsoft" -- in exchange for Netscape's staying out of AOL's online service business...
...that a market division proposal?" Microsoft attorney John Warden asked AOL senior vice president David Colburn in court. "What it seemed to me to be was a strategic partnership," hedged Colburn, who then backed up the government's case by testifying that in 1996, AOL chose Microsoft's browser over Netscape's because of its vast distribution on the Windows desktop. Oh, yeah --and rather than being paid for its software, Microsoft paid AOL $500,000 to distribute its browser. It was a deal that AOL couldn't refuse...
...backend, there's a database of content such as retail products or newspaper articles. In the middle, there's the that operates on the backend--performing searches, for example, and delivering data to the front end-the browser...
...least one thing got resolved at the federal courthouse Tuesday: Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale stepped down from the witness stand after six days of witty one-liners and folksy banter. His parting shot: How the Microsoft-Apple deal, which made Internet Explorer the default browser on every Mac, made him feel. "It irritated the stew out of me," said Barksdale. In notes released by the Justice Department, Apple's chief financial officer says Apple was "dead" unless it made Explorer the default. The government?s next witness, Netscape cofounder Marc Andreessen, has a tough act to follow...