Word: warden
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...that the two sides were engaged in a p.r. struggle over its timing. Justice would have been happy to play the tape at the end of the previous week, when the TV feed would have been fodder for a weekend's worth of chat shows. But Microsoft lawyer John Warden's cross-examination of Colburn proceeded so glacially--sample topic: What is e-mail, Mr. Colburn?--that the video was bumped to the following Monday. Microsoft couldn't have been unhappy that Gates got lost in the clutter of last week's national election-eve coverage...
...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...
...surprisingly, Microsoft has reacted indignantly to the government's "personal attacks on a visionary and innovator." John Warden, delivering Microsoft's opening statement, contended that Gates and his company had done nothing but engage in the hard-driving competition that is the essence of the free market. "The antitrust laws are not a code of civility in business," Warden told the court. He argued that Justice is trying to fix a software market that isn't broken. Microsoft is not a monopoly because there are few "barriers to entry" stopping would-be competitors from jumping in, Warden maintained. "There...
...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...
...Microsoft attorney John Warden shot back with a now-familiar defense: Explorer is a better product. Isn't that why we won the contract? But Colburn insisted it was realpolitik, not quality, that drove them into bed with Microsoft. Poor old Apple, meanwhile, claimed rougher treatment at Redmond's hands before its own Explorer deal: Microsoft "threatened to abandon the Mac," according to a memo from Apple CFO Fred Anderson unveiled in court Tuesday. All in all, it's not the best prologue Microsoft could have hoped for in advance of Bill Gates's taped testimony -- which will be shown...