Word: trialing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mail messages he sent to subordinates concerning Apple, Sun and other competitors. Antitrust prosecutors used the tapes to prep the court for Wednesday's appearance by Apple exec Avadis Tevanian, hoping that Gates's performance will cast a shadow over his corporation's motives: "A lot of this trial comes down to the perception of whether or not a monopoly played within the rules and used its market share in an appropriate way," says TIME correspondent Adam Cohen. "The video testimony hurt Microsoft because it presented their CEO in an unflattering light -- the government wanted to paint Gates...
...Department of Justice antitrust chief, Joel Klein, would argue the liberal position that government must intervene when a monopolist abuses its position of dominance in the market. And Microsoft would make the libertarian case that markets work best when they operate freely. But a week into the trial, the real battle seems to be between two warring views of Gates. Is he the brilliant innovator who has brought the wonders of the information age to millions of satisfied customers? Or is he the rapacious capitalist leveraging his software monopoly to crush competitors? How the courts view the world's richest...
...bang-up way to start a trial. Microsoft's outside-the-courthouse spin team peddled the view that Boies' opening statement was based on "loose and unreliable rhetoric and snippets that were not in any reliable context." But court watchers were already arguing whether Gates' statements were actually perjurious or merely Clintonesque. Some saw an even more sinister subtext to Boies' opening statement and the incorporeal, larger-than-life double-tongued creature he described as luring unwitting followers to his crusade for world domination. Could the U.S. government really be suggesting that Gates is evil incarnate...
...seem farfetched, but that's precisely what Microsoft charged. On Day Two of the trial, lead Microsoft lawyer John Warden accused Boies of trying to "demonize Bill Gates" and of casting Microsoft as "the great Satan." Bill Gates as Beelzebub is actually a familiar trope in computerland. The Internet is filled with discussion groups debating whether Gates is the devil and Microsoft the Evil Empire. Search the Web for sites that pair the words Gates and Satan, and you'll turn up tens of thousands of hits. Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig was a court-appointed monitor in an earlier...
...keep the trial moving briskly--the hope is to wrap up in six to eight weeks, compared with the 13 years the IBM antitrust trial dragged on--Judge Jackson has limited each side to 12 witnesses. And he has imposed the unusual condition that all witnesses submit their direct testimony in written form. Only cross-examination and redirect take place in the courtroom...