Revisiting the spectacular failure that was the Bill Gates deposition

Re:Revisiting the spectacular failure that was the Bill Gate... by function_seven on Saturday September 12, 2020 @02:47PM (#24454487)

Yes. Just reading the snippet you included, I'm on Bill's side here. "Concerned" can mean all sorts of things!

If he answers "Netscape Navigator", then the Boies will continue on with the meaning that Gates was viewing them as a competitive threat.

If he answers "None", then Boies can go down the path of Microsoft not giving a damn about interoperability with 3rd-party software.

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Re:Revisiting the spectacular failure that was the Bill Gate... by andi999 on Saturday September 12, 2020 @03:08PM (#24454666)

Exactly. If he would have questioned the word 'browser' then he would have played games.

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Re:Revisiting the spectacular failure that was the Bill Gate... by bawolff on Saturday September 12, 2020 @05:47PM (#24456132)

I watched a bit of the deposition online - they do actually discuss the definition of web browser for a bit (and reasonably so, it is the primary thing this is about)

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Re:Revisiting the spectacular failure that was the Bill Gate... by Beldin on Saturday September 12, 2020 @04:10PM (#24455202)

Frankly, he should have immediately replied "Internet Explorer".

Because that's the browser his company makes, so, amongst browsers, that should have been his main concern. No need for wordplay, no looking at competition. Just the concern you'd expect from the CEO: a focus on their own product.

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Re:Revisiting the spectacular failure that was the Bill Gate... by function_seven on Saturday September 12, 2020 @04:13PM (#24455230)

The question was phrased to avoid that response:

> Boies: What non-Microsoft browsers were you concerned about in January of 1996?

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Re:Revisiting the spectacular failure that was the Bill Gate... by Beldin on Sunday September 13, 2020 @10:54AM (#24461234)

My bad, I stand corrected.

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Re:Revisiting the spectacular failure that was the Bill Gate... by antaviana on Saturday September 12, 2020 @04:17PM (#24455267)

The question was specifically about non-Microsoft browsers.

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