He shoulda used a Mac <g> .... Emphasis Added .... U.S. Hits At Gates At Opening Of Microsoft Trial http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/tc/story.html?s=v/nm/19981020/tc/antitr ust_31.html <quote> But Boies asked the court to look at a May 1995 memo in which Gates said: ``A new competitor born on the Internet is Netscape.'' Another memo that month from Gates said: ``I think there is a very powerful deal of some kind we can do with Netscape.'' *** Boies, who was at times plagued by technical glitches in the Windows-based program he used to display evidence on courtroom monitors, then played an excerpt of the tape where Gates was asked if Microsoft had considered investing in Netscape.*** Pausing to scratch his head, Gates squinted and replied: ``I said that didn't make sense.'' But before the 1995 meeting, Gates appeared to raise the possibility of investing. ``Of course...we could even pay them money as part of the deal, buying some piece of them or something,'' Gates wrote in a May 31, 1995 memo presented by Boies. Gates also discussed offering Netscape other sweeteners in return for dividing the market, Boies said. ``I would really like to see something like this happen!!'', Gates wrote in the memo. Netscape executives have said they rejected Microsoft's overtures. </quote> > Kathy E. Gill > DCAC/MRM Production Visibility Support -- 425.234.2004, pager 425.568.0195 > Continuous effort -- not strength or intelligence -- is the key to > unlocking our potential. > ~ Liane Cardes > Microsoft Exchange: the perfect name for its users' greatest desire! > ____________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Join The Web Consultants Association : Register on our web site Now Web Consultants Web Site : http://just4u.com/webconsultants If you lose the instructions All subscription/unsubscribing can be done directly from our website for all our lists. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
