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US Report: Judge Opens Gates' Deposition To Public
News Judge Jackson this afternoon issued a stay on all future depositions --- including the scheduled Wednesday deposition of Gates --- until an orderly process can be hammered out to accommodate the influx of attendees now certain to be present.
[August 12, 1998, 10:16]
Burst.com Wants Gates' Deposition Made Public
News A software company suing Microsoft for patent infringement wants a judge to release a deposition of Bill Gates to the public. This isn't the first time a Gates deposition has become the focus of some scrutiny: excerpts from a three-day...
[September 2, 2004, 14:10]
Ellison Deposition Video Released
News The Oracle CEO provides details on the embattled PeopleSoft merger
[June 25, 2004, 12:40]
US Report: Gates, Boies In 'pissing' Match
News The screening of more than a half-hour of the Microsoft chairman's taped deposition, taken Aug.was the government's lead-in to its next witness -- James Gosling, a Sun Microsystems Inc.fellow and co-creator of Java.
[December 4, 1998, 5:14]
Oracle Mulls Other Targets
News Siebel Systems and BEA Systems are on Oracle's wish list for potential acquisitions, according to a videotaped deposition of Oracle chief executive officer Larry Ellison. During his deposition, Ellison confirmed that Safra Catz, Oracle co-president...
[June 22, 2004, 8:20]
Sklyarov Reflects On DMCA Case
News Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov thinks it was unfair of prosecutors to play his videotaped deposition at the ElcomSoft trial rather than calling him to the stand. Earlier in the two-week long trial, the government had tried to use the videotaped...
[December 20, 2002, 13:24]
Microsoft On Trial: Feds Say Microsoft Muscled PC Makers
News Government attorneys also played excerpts of Bill Gates' videotaped deposition where Microsoft's Chairman again sparred with questioners over the definitions -- at one point the exchange focused on the meaning of the term "killer application...
[December 16, 1998, 6:13]
Microsoft On Trial: DOJ Testimony Centres On Browser Integration
News Scott Vesey, Boeing's Windows Web browser product manager, explained in his deposition that Boeing views a Web browser as an application much like a word processor. Department of Justice is expected to show more of Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates...
[November 18, 1998, 5:53]
Microsoft On Trial: MS A '1,000-pound Gorilla' Says Disney
News While the segments of Gates' videotaped deposition were similar to what has been shown in court already, in which an evasive witness dodges questions, the clips focused on Microsoft's willingness to bully IBM.
[December 16, 1998, 12:55]
US Report: Two Early Rulings Made In DoJ's Favour
News Jackson ordered Microsoft to have Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Bill Gates available for deposition for as much time as needed. Microsoft earlier had asked Jackson to limit Gates' deposition to eight hours.
[August 7, 1998, 9:11]
A Year Ago: Friction Behind AOL-Netscape-Sun Deal
News There were numerous instances of Sun-Netscape clashes, right up until the companies announced the AOL-Netscape merger and subsequent Sun technology licensing deal, according to a deposition from Sun vice president Jon Kannegaard, released publicly...
[May 10, 2000, 7:01]
Friction Behind AOL-Netscape-Sun Deal
News There were numerous instances of Sun-Netscape clashes, right up until the companies announced the AOL-Netscape merger and subsequent Sun technology licensing deal, according to a deposition from Sun vice president Jon Kannegaard, released publicly...
[May 10, 1999, 8:48]
Microsoft Reveals Antitrust Testimony
News A deposition is sworn oral testimony generally available only to the parties directly involved in a lawsuit. During a deposition on 8 February, Steven Kuney, the litigating states' lawyer from Williams & Connolly in Washington, DC, pressed Ballmer...
[March 5, 2002, 8:53]
PeopleSoft Case Hears More Details On CEO Concerns
News Oracle's lawyers played a five-minute videotape of the deposition, in which Conway acknowledged being less than honest during the conversation with analysts in September 2003. Steven Goldby, who chairs PeopleSoft's governance committee, said that...
[October 4, 2004, 17:20]
PC Makers Attack New Windows Fees
News Gateway and Hewlett-Packard have gone on the record with Microsoft as opposing the new licensing terms, according to Fade's deposition and documents included in the states' filing. Under the new agreements, which Microsoft began putting into place...
[February 22, 2002, 12:12]
Microsoft Forced Hand Of PC Makers - DOJ Papers
News Stephen Decker, director of software procurement at Compaq, told DOJ investigators in a sworn deposition how Microsoft had threatened to terminate the Houston company's Windows 95 license after Compaq removed the IE icon from its line of Presario...
[October 23, 1997, 9:11]
Gates Gamble Pays Off For Microsoft
News This is not the Gates we saw in the earlier deposition. Gates did not testify in person during the main trial, but at the time, government lead attorney David Boies effectively impugned the Microsoft co-founder's credibility by showing select...
[April 23, 2002, 8:14]
Microsoft Moves To Close Depositions
News Under the order, granted in August 1998, the public was allowed to see and/or read seven depositions taken in the original case, including the deposition of Chairman Bill Gates. A deposition is sworn oral testimony generally only available to the...
[January 10, 2002, 9:24]
Microsoft On Trial: IBM A Thorn In Microsoft's Side?
News See Bill Gates' full deposition. Much of his deposition was redacted, and any disharmony between IBM and Microsoft paled in comparison to that expressed by officials with other OEMs, such as Compaq Computer Corp.
[May 5, 1999, 9:59]
Microsoft On Trial: Netscape 'imagined' Antitrust Case
News In response, Warden produced a 1997 deposition in which Andreessen told federal investigators. In that deposition, Andreessen told government lawyers: "It was a meeting I thought I'd want to remember in great detail.
[October 23, 1998, 10:48]
