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Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 02:28:38 -0500 (EST)
From: James Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list INFO-POLICY-NOTES
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Subject: Apple Senior Vice President Avadis Tevanian Jr.
The following are Eric Bennett's excerpts of written testimony by
Apple Senior Vice President Avadis Tevanian Jr. Mr. Tevanian's
testimony appears to be very damaging evidence against Microsoft.
Jamie
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Subject: Excerpts of Tevanian's testimony [long]
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 00:29:26 -0500 (EST)
From: "Eric M. Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list AM-INFO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The DOJ has posted Tevanian's testimony. You can get a PDF file of it here:
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/ms_testimony.htm
Since the PDF file is over 2 megs (it is simply a digitized scan of
documents), I have included some of the more relevant sections here. I
omitted the information about Office and the QT patent lawsuit, since it
didn't seem to contain any information that we have not already heard about.
Here are my excerpts:
"Mr. [Eric] Engstrom [of Microsoft's multimedia division] noted at the
meeting that Microsoft's Bill Gates was not interested in an authoring
program because the market for this product was too small. He assured the
Apple representatives, however, that if Microsoft needed to make an
investment in providing authoring tools in order to push Apple out of the
[multimedia] playback market, then Microsoft would devote all the necessary
resources to accomplish this goal."
