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VIDEOTAPED DEPOSITION EXCERPTS OF BILL GATES

13 BY MR. HOUCK:

14 QUESTION: IN OR ABOUT JUNE 1995,

15 MR. GATES, DID YOU BECOME INVOLVED IN THE

16 PLANNING FOR SOME MEETINGS WITH NETSCAPE?

17 ANSWER: NO.

18 QUESTION: THE E-MAIL I WANT TO ASK YOU

19 ABOUT FIRST, MR. GATES, IS DATED JUNE 1ST, 1995,

20 AND THE VERY TOP PORTION INDICATES THAT THE

21 BOTTOM PORTION IS BEING SENT TO YOU FOR YOUR

22 INFORMATION BY PAUL MARITZ, AND THE BOTTOM

23 PORTION IS AN E-MAIL FROM THOMAS REARDON, DATED

24 JUNE 1, 1995, ON THE SUBJECT OF WORKING WITH

25 NETSCAPE. _________________________________________________________________

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1 DO YOU RECALL RECEIVING THIS MEMORANDUM OR

2 E-MAIL?

3 ANSWER: E-MAIL, NO.

4 QUESTION: ALL RIGHT. I APOLOGIZE FOR USING

5 MY OLD-FASHIONED TERMINOLOGY.

6 YOU DON'T RECALL RECEIVING THIS E-MAIL

7 PARTICULARLY?

8 ANSWER: NO.

9 QUESTION: THE E-MAIL STATES, `DAN AND BARB

10 AND I MET LATE YESTERDAY TO REVIEW OUR RECENT

11 DISCUSSIONS WITH NETSCAPE AND FORM OUR NEXT FEW

12 ACTION ITEMS. DAN IS MEETING WITH JIM BARKSDALE,

13 THEIR CEO, SHORTLY.'

14 DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE REFERENCE TO DAN TO BE

15 A REFERENCE TO DAN ROSEN?

16 ANSWER: PROBABLY.

17 QUESTION: IS THE REFERENCE TO BARBARA A

18 REFERENCE TO BARBARA FOX?

19 ANSWER: I MEAN, YOU COULD ASK THOMAS.

20 PROBABLY.

21 QUESTION: DO YOU HAVE ANY UNDERSTANDING,

22 SIR?

23 ANSWER: BASED ON--I HAVE NEVER SPOKEN WITH

24 THOMAS ABOUT THIS. I DON'T REMEMBER SEEING THE

25 E-MAIL. _________________________________________________________________

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1 QUESTION: DO YOU RECALL SPEAKING TO ANYONE

2 ABOUT THE MEETING REFERRED TO HERE BETWEEN DAN

3 ROSEN AND JIM BARKSDALE?

4 ANSWER: NO.

5 QUESTION: THE E-MAIL GOES ON TO LIST

6 WORKING GOALS, WHICH ARE, ONE, LAUNCH STT, OUR

7 ELECTRONIC PAYMENT PROTOCOL. GET STT PRESENCE ON

8 THE INTERNET. TWO, MOVE NETSCAPE OUT OF THE

9 WIN32 INTERNET CLIENT AREA. THREE, AVOID COLD OR

10 HOT WAR WITH NETSCAPE. KEEP THEM FROM SABOTAGING

11 OUR PLATFORM EVOLUTION.

12 DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE REFERENCE TO WIN32

13 INTERNET CLIENT TO BE A REFERENCE TO WINDOWS 95?

14 ANSWER: NO.

15 QUESTION: WHAT DO YOU UNDERSTAND IT TO BE A

16 REFERENCE TO?

17 ANSWER: WIN32.

18 QUESTION: AND CAN YOU DESCRIBE WHAT THAT

19 IS.

20 ANSWER: 32-BIT WINDOWS.

21 QUESTION: IS WINDOWS 95 A 32-BIT WINDOWS

22 PRODUCT?

23 ANSWER: IT'S ONE OF THEM.

24 QUESTION: WERE THERE ANY OTHER 32-BIT

25 PRODUCTS IN DEVELOPMENT IN JUNE OF 1995? _________________________________________________________________

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1 ANSWER: CERTAINLY.

2 QUESTION: WHICH ONES?

3 ANSWER: WINDOWS NT.

4 QUESTION: DO YOU KNOW WHETHER MR. REARDON

5 WAS REFERRING TO WINDOWS NT AND WINDOWS 30 AND

6 WINDOWS 95, OR ONE OR THE OTHER?

7 ANSWER: WIN32'S A TERM THAT REFERS TO ALL

8 THE 32-BIT PLATFORMS.

9 QUESTION: AND AS I UNDERSTAND YOUR

10 TESTIMONY THAT THE 32-BIT PLATFORMS UNDER

11 DEVELOPMENT IN JUNE OF 1995 WERE WINDOWS NT AND

12 WINDOWS 95; IS THAT CORRECT?

13 ANSWER: NO. WINDOWS NT WAS SHIPPING, AND

14 THERE WAS A NEW VERSION THAT WAS UNDER

15 DEVELOPMENT.

16 QUESTION: AND WINDOWS 95 WAS IN DEVELOPMENT

17 AT THIS TIME?

18 ANSWER: CERTAINLY."

19 (PAUSE.)

20 "QUESTION: IN THE PORTION OF THE E-MAIL

21 DENOMINATED NUMBER TWO, WHICH IS "MOVE NETSCAPE

22 OUT OF WIN32/WIN95, AVOID BATTLING THEM IN THE

23 NEXT YEAR," THERE APPEARS THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT

24 IN THE SECOND PARAGRAPH, QUOTE, THEY APPEARED TO

25 BE MOVING FAST TO ESTABLISH THEMSELVES IN THE _________________________________________________________________

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1 VALUE-ADD APP BUSINESS BY LEVERAGING NETSCAPE

2 ITSELF AS A PLATFORM.

3 DO YOU RECALL WHETHER YOU AGREED THAT THAT'S

4 WHAT NETSCAPE WAS DOING BACK IN JUNE '95?

5 ANSWER: AT THIS TIME I HAD NO SENSE OF WHAT

6 NETSCAPE WAS DOING."

7 (PAUSE.)

8 "QUESTION: DO YOU RECALL, AS YOU SIT HERE

9 TODAY, APART FROM JUST READING THESE E-MAILS,

10 ANYTHING THAT WAS REPORTED BACK TO YOU BY ANY OF

11 THE PARTICIPANTS FROM MICROSOFT AT THIS JUNE 21ST

12 MEETING?

13 ANSWER: WELL, I THINK SOMEWHERE ABOUT THIS

14 TIME SOMEBODY SAID TO ME THAT--ASKED IF IT MADE

15 SENSE FOR US TO CONSIDER INVESTING IN NETSCAPE,

16 AND I SAID THAT THAT DIDN'T MAKE SENSE TO ME. I

17 DIDN'T SEE THAT AS SOMETHING THAT MADE SENSE.

18 QUESTION: DO YOU RECALL WHO SAID THAT TO

19 YOU?

20 ANSWER: IT WOULD HAVE BEEN PROBABLY

21 SUGGESTED IN A PIECE OF E-MAIL FROM DAN, I THINK.

22 QUESTION: DO YOU RECALL WHEN YOU GOT THAT

23 SUGGESTION, WHETHER IT WAS BEFORE OR AFTER THE

24 MEETING?

25 ANSWER: OH, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN AFTER THE _________________________________________________________________

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1 MEETING.

2 QUESTION: DO YOU RECALL ANYTHING ELSE THAT

3 ANYONE TOLD YOU BACK IN JUNE '95 ABOUT THE

4 MEETING?

5 ANSWER: NO."

6 (PAUSE.)

7 "BY MR. BOIES:

8 QUESTION: YOU ARE AWARE THAT IT HAS BEEN

9 ASSERTED THAT AT THAT MEETING THERE WAS AN

10 ATTEMPT TO ALLOCATE MARKETS BETWEEN NETSCAPE AND

11 MICROSOFT; CORRECT, SIR?

12 ANSWER: MY ONLY KNOWLEDGE OF THAT IS THAT

13 THERE WAS AN ARTICLE IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

14 VERY RECENTLY THAT SAID SOMETHING ALONG THOSE

15 LINES. OTHERWISE, NO.

16 QUESTION: IS IT YOUR TESTIMONY THAT THE

17 FIRST TIME THAT YOU WERE AWARE THAT THERE WAS AN

18 ASSERTION THAT THERE HAD BEEN A MARKETABLE

19 ALLOCATION MEETING OR AN ATTEMPT TO ALLOCATE

20 MARKETS AT A MEETING BETWEEN REPRESENTATIVES OF

21 MICROSOFT AND NETSCAPE WAS A RECENT WALL STREET

22 JOURNAL ARTICLE?

23 ANSWER: I'M NOT SURE HOW TO CHARACTERIZE

24 IT. THE FIRST THING--THE FIRST I HEARD ANYTHING

25 ABOUT THAT MEETING AND SOMEBODY TRYING TO _________________________________________________________________

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1 CHARACTERIZE IT IN SOME NEGATIVE WAY WAS AN

2 ANDREESSEN QUOTE THAT WAS IN THE WALL STREET

3 JOURNAL VERY RECENTLY, AND IT SURPRISED ME.

4 QUESTION: ARE YOU AWARE OF ANY INSTANCES IN

5 WHICH REPRESENTATIVES OF MICROSOFT HAD MET WITH

6 COMPETITORS IN AN ATTEMPT TO ALLOCATE MARKETS?

7 MR. HEINER: OBJECTION.

8 THE WITNESS: I'M NOT AWARE OF ANY SUCH

9 THING. I KNOW IT'S VERY MUCH AGAINST THE WAY WE

10 OPERATE.

11 BY MR. BOIES:

12 QUESTION: IT WOULD BE AGAINST COMPANY

13 POLICY TO DO THAT?

14 ANSWER: THAT'S RIGHT."

15 (PAUSE.)

16 "QUESTION: LET ME ASK YOU, DID YOU--WHEN

17 YOU SAW THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ARTICLE THAT

18 TALKED ABOUT A MAY MEETING IN TERMS OF ALLEGEDLY

19 MARKET DIVIDING CONDUCT, DID YOU TRY TO FIND OUT

20 WHETHER THERE HAD BEEN A MAY MEETING BETWEEN

21 REPRESENTATIVES OF MICROSOFT AND REPRESENTATIVES

22 OF NETSCAPE?

23 ANSWER: WELL, AGAIN, I WOULDN'T

24 CHARACTERIZE THE ARTICLE IN THAT WAY. WHEN I

25 READ THE ARTICLE, WHAT IT SAID INTERESTED ME _________________________________________________________________

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1 ENOUGH AND CONCERNED ME ENOUGH I DID SEEK TO FIND

2 OUT IF THERE WAS A MAY MEETING, BUT I DON'T THINK

3 THE ARTICLE IS WHAT YOU'RE SUGGEST--SAID WHAT

4 YOU'RE SUGGESTING. I MEAN, WE SHOULD GET A COPY

5 OF THE ARTICLE. I DON'T REMEMBER IT THAT WAY. I

6 REMEMBER ANDREESSEN TALKING ABOUT HOW HE HAD BEEN

7 IN FEAR THAT DON CORLEONE HAD COME TO SEE HIM.

8 AND, YOU KNOW, ONCE I REALIZED THAT THERE

9 WAS NO MEETING IN MAY AND THAT IT WASN'T--YOU

10 KNOW, THAT HE, AFTER THE MEETING, SAID HE ENJOYED

11 THE MEETING AND THAT IT WAS, YOU KNOW, JUST A

12 GROUP OF OUR GUYS DOWN THERE TRYING TO TALK ABOUT

13 IF THERE WAS ANYWAY AREAS OF COOPERATION, IT

14 SEEMED--THE WHOLE THING SEEMED VERY STRANGE TO

15 ME.

16 QUESTION: DID YOU TALK TO PEOPLE TO FIND

17 OUT WHETHER THERE WAS A MAY MEETING?

18 ANSWER: YES.

19 QUESTION: WHO DID YOU TALK TO?

20 ANSWER: I CONSULTED WITH MY LAWYERS.

21 QUESTION: OTHER THAN CONSULTING WITH YOUR

22 LAWYERS, DID YOU TRY TO FIND OUT WHETHER THERE

23 WAS A MAY MEETING?

24 ANSWER: WELL, MY LAWYERS, THEN, TALKED TO

25 ALL THE PEOPLE THAT MIGHT HAVE MET WITH NETSCAPE, _________________________________________________________________

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1 AND I MADE SURE THEY DID THAT PRETTY BROADLY.

2 QUESTION: YOU WERE INFORMED THAT THERE WAS

3 NO MAY MEETING; IS THAT YOUR TESTIMONY?

4 ANSWER: THAT'S THE UNDERSTANDING I WAS

5 GIVEN, YES, AND THEN I WAS GIVEN SOME OTHER

6 INFORMATION THAT I HAVE ALREADY MENTIONED.

7 QUESTION: BUT ALL OF THAT INFORMATION CAME

8 FROM YOUR LAWYERS AND NOT FROM NONLAWYER

9 EMPLOYEES OF MICROSOFT; IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE

10 SAYING?

11 ANSWER: IT CAME TO ME THROUGH MY LAWYERS.

12 QUESTION: DID YOU EVER HAVE A CONVERSATION

13 WITH ANYONE IN THE LAST 12 MONTHS, OTHER THAN

14 YOUR LAWYERS, CONCERNING WHETHER THERE WERE

15 MEETINGS IN MAY OR JUNE OF 1995 WITH NETSCAPE,

16 AND IF SO, WHAT HAPPENED AT THOSE MEETINGS?

17 ANSWER: WELL, THERE MIGHT HAVE BEEN A POINT

18 AFTER I GOT ALL THE DATA FROM THE LAWYERS WHERE I

19 SAID TO SOME OF THE PR PEOPLE WHAT AN OUTRAGEOUS

20 SLANDER THAT ARTICLE HAD BEEN AND HOW UNFAIR I

21 FELT IT WAS. AND SO, I MAY HAVE MENTIONED THAT

22 TO THEM.

23 QUESTION: DID YOU HAVE ANY CONVERSATIONS,

24 IN THE LAST 12 MONTHS, WITH ANY PERSON WHO WAS

25 DEALING WITH NETSCAPE IN 1995 ABOUT WHETHER THERE _________________________________________________________________

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1 WERE MAY OR JUNE MEETINGS, AND IF SO, WHAT

2 HAPPENED AT THOSE MEETINGS?

3 ANSWER: NO. I RELIED ON THE LAWYERS TO GO

4 AND MEET WITH THOSE PEOPLE AND GATHER THE FACTS

5 AND EDUCATE ME ABOUT WAS THERE A MAY MEETING AND

6 WHAT WAS THE AGENDA, WHAT WAS ANDREESSEN'S STATE

7 OF MIND AFTER THE MEETING, WHAT DID THE NOTES

8 LOOK LIKE. BUT THAT'S ALL VERY RECENT. THAT IS

9 AFTER THE JOURNAL ARTICLE.

10 QUESTION: NOW, HAVE YOU EVER READ THE

11 COMPLAINT IN THIS CASE?

12 ANSWER: NO.

13 QUESTION: HAVE YOU EVER RECEIVED A SUMMARY

14 OF THE COMPLAINT IN THIS CASE?

15 ANSWER: I WOULDN'T SAY I'VE RECEIVED A

16 SUMMARY, NO. I HAVE TALKED TO MY LAWYERS ABOUT

17 THE CASE, BUT NOT REALLY THE COMPLAINT.

18 QUESTION: DO YOU KNOW WHETHER IN THE

19 COMPLAINT THERE IS AN ASSERTION--I'M NOT TALKING

20 ABOUT THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ARTICLE. I'M

21 TALKING ABOUT THE COMPLAINT THAT WAS FILED LAST

22 MAY. DO YOU KNOW WHETHER IN THAT COMPLAINT THERE

23 ARE ALLEGATIONS CONCERNING A 1995 MEETING BETWEEN

24 NETSCAPE AND MICROSOFT REPRESENTATIVES RELATING

25 TO ALLEGED MARKET DIVISION DISCUSSIONS? _________________________________________________________________

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1 ANSWER: I HAVEN'T READ THE COMPLAINT, SO I

2 DON'T KNOW FOR SURE. BUT I THINK SOMEBODY SAID

3 THAT THAT IS IN THERE.

4 QUESTION: DID YOU FIND THAT OUT BEFORE OR

5 AFTER THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ARTICLE?

6 ANSWER: THE FIRST TIME I KNEW ABOUT THESE

7 ALLEGATIONS WAS THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ARTICLE,

8 SO--

9 QUESTION: THAT IS, THAT ARTICLE PRECEDED

10 ANY KNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAD OR DIDN'T HAVE RELATED

11 TO THE COMPLAINT?

12 ANSWER: THAT'S RIGHT."

13 (PAUSE.)

14 "QUESTION: HAVE YOU EVER HAD DISCUSSIONS

15 WITHIN MICROSOFT ABOUT THE DESIRABILITY OF TRYING

16 TO UNDERMINE SUN BECAUSE OF WHAT SUN WAS DOING IN

17 JAVA?

18 ANSWER: I SAID TO YOU, PART OF OUR ACTIVITY

19 IS TO GO OUT AND WORK WITH CUSTOMERS TO SEE WHAT

20 IT TAKES TO HAVE THEM CHOOSE TO LICENSE OUR

21 PRODUCTS, AND THAT'S IN COMPETITION WITH MANY

22 OTHER COMPANIES, INCLUDING SUN."

23 (PAUSE.)

24 "QUESTION: I'M NOT NOW TALKING ABOUT WHAT

25 YOU DO IN COMPETITION WITH OTHER PRODUCTS OR _________________________________________________________________

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1 OTHER COMPANIES. WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT IS

2 WHETHER OR NOT YOU'VE HAD DISCUSSIONS WITH PEOPLE

3 WITHIN MICROSOFT IN WHICH YOU TALKED ABOUT THE

4 NEED TO UNDERMINE SUN--USING THOSE WORDS, IF THAT

5 WILL HELP YOU--WITHIN MICROSOFT.

6 ANSWER: I DON'T REMEMBER USING THOSE WORDS.

7 QUESTION: YOU DON'T?

8 ANSWER: NO.

9 QUESTION: DO YOU THINK YOU DID USE THOSE

10 WORDS, OR YOU JUST DON'T KNOW, ONE WAY OR THE

11 OTHER?

12 ANSWER: I DON'T KNOW.

13 QUESTION: WOULD IT BE CONSISTENT WITH THE

14 WAY YOU FELT ABOUT JAVA, FOR YOU TO HAVE TOLD

15 PEOPLE THAT YOU WANTED TO UNDERMINE SUN?

16 ANSWER: AS I'VE SAID, ANYTHING ABOUT JAVA,

17 YOU'VE GOT TO SHOW ME A CONTEXT BEFORE I CAN

18 ANSWER, BECAUSE JUST THE TERM "JAVA" ITSELF CAN

19 MEAN DIFFERENT THINGS."

20 (PAUSE.)

21 "QUESTION: DID YOU HAVE DISCUSSIONS WITH

22 APPLE IN WHICH YOU WERE TRYING TO GET APPLE TO

23 AGREE TO HELP YOU UNDERMINE SUN?

24 ANSWER: THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION ABOUT

25 WHAT RUNTIME API'S APPLE WOULD SUPPORT, WHETHER _________________________________________________________________

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1 THEY WOULD SUPPORT SOME OF OURS OR SOME OF SUN'S.

2 I DON'T THINK I WAS INVOLVED IN ANY DISCUSSIONS,

3 MYSELF, WITH APPLE ABOUT THAT.

4 QUESTION: WELL, LET ME SHOW YOU A DOCUMENT

5 AND TRY TO PROBE WHAT YOU MEAN BY BEING INVOLVED.

6 LET ME GIVE YOU A COPY OF A DOCUMENT THAT HAS

7 BEEN PREVIOUSLY MARKED AS GOVERNMENT EXHIBIT 265.

8 A PORTION OF THIS DOCUMENT IS AN E-MAIL

9 MESSAGE FROM YOU TO PAUL MARITZ AND OTHERS, AND

10 THE PORTION THAT I'M PARTICULARLY INTERESTED

11 IN--AND YOU CAN READ AS MUCH OF THE THREE-LINE

12 E-MAIL AS YOU WISH--IS THE LAST SENTENCE, WHICH

13 READS, QUOTE, DO WE HAVE A CLEAR PLAN ON WHAT WE

14 WANT APPLE TO DO TO UNDERMINE SUN, CLOSED QUOTES?

15 DID YOU SEND THIS E-MAIL, MR. GATES, ON OR

16 ABOUT AUGUST 8TH, 1997?

17 ANSWER: I DON'T REMEMBER SENDING IT.

18 QUESTION: DO YOU HAVE ANY DOUBT THAT YOU

19 SENT IT?

20 ANSWER: NO. IT APPEARS TO BE E-MAIL I

21 SENT.

22 QUESTION: DO YOU RECOGNIZE THAT THIS IS A

23 DOCUMENT PRODUCED FROM MICROSOFT'S FILES, DO YOU

24 NOT, SIR?

25 ANSWER: NO. _________________________________________________________________

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1 QUESTION: YOU DON'T?

2 ANSWER: WELL, HOW WOULD I KNOW THAT?

3 QUESTION: WELL, DO YOU SEE THE DOCUMENT

4 PRODUCTION NUMBERS DOWN AT THE BOTTOM?

5 ANSWER: I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THOSE NUMBERS

6 ARE."

7 "QUESTION: LET ME GO BACK TO THE E-MAIL,

8 MR. GATES.

9 WHAT DID YOU MEAN WHEN YOU ASKED MR. MARITZ

10 WHETHER OR NOT, QUOTE, WE HAVE A CLEAR PLAN ON

11 WHAT WE WANT APPLE TO DO TO UNDERMINE SUN, CLOSED

12 QUOTE?

13 ANSWER: I DON'T REMEMBER.

14 QUESTION: DID YOU PERSONALLY PARTICIPATE IN _________________________________________________________________

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1 ANY CONVERSATIONS WITH APPLE IN 1997 AND 1998?

2 ANSWER: OF ANY KIND?

3 QUESTION: LET ME BE A LITTLE MORE SPECIFIC.

4 DID YOU PARTICIPATE IN ANY CONVERSATIONS

5 WITH APPLE IN 1997 OR 1998, CONCERNING WHAT APPLE

6 WOULD OR WOULD NOT DO THAT WOULD AFFECT MICROSOFT

7 COMPETITIVELY?

8 ANSWER: WELL, THERE WERE SOME CONVERSATIONS

9 WITH STEVE JOBS ABOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE AND

10 SOME--AND A RELATIONSHIP WE FORMED AROUND THAT

11 AND SOME OTHER ISSUES.

12 QUESTION: AND DID YOU PARTICIPATE IN THOSE

13 CONVERSATIONS?

14 ANSWER: I TALKED TO STEVE JOBS ON THE

15 PHONE, I THINK, TWICE.

16 QUESTION: AND WHAT WAS THE NATURE OF YOUR

17 CONVERSATIONS WITH MR. JOBS?

18 ANSWER: WELL, STEVE HAD--STEVE CALLED ME UP

19 AND SAID THAT HE HAD BECOME THE CEO OF APPLE,

20 SORT OF, AND THAT GIL AMELIO WASN'T THE CEO OF

21 APPLE. AND HE RAISED THE QUESTION OF WAS THERE

22 SOME BENEFICIAL AGREEMENT THAT WE COULD ENTER

23 INTO DIFFERENT THAN WE'D BEEN DISCUSSING WITH

24 GIL. AND IT WASN'T A VERY LONG CALL, BUT THE

25 CONCLUSION WAS THAT GREG MAFFEI WOULD GO SEE _________________________________________________________________

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1 STEVE."

2 (PAUSE.)

3 "QUESTION: AND WAS IT YOUR UNDERSTANDING

4 THAT MICROSOFT OFFICE FOR MACINTOSH WAS BELIEVED

5 BY APPLE TO BE VERY IMPORTANT TO THEM?

6 ANSWER: I REALLY HAVE A HARD TIME

7 TESTIFYING ABOUT THE BELIEF OF A CORPORATION. I

8 REALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS.

9 QUESTION: WELL, SIR, IN MAKING THE

10 DECISIONS AS TO WHAT YOU WOULD ASK OF APPLE, DID

11 YOU BELIEVE THAT WHAT YOU WERE OFFERING APPLE

12 WITH RESPECT TO MICROSOFT OFFICE FOR MACINTOSH

13 WAS IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO APPLE SO THAT THEY OUGHT

14 TO GIVE YOU SOMETHING FOR IT?

15 ANSWER: I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE TALKING

16 ABOUT WHEN YOU SAY "ASK."

17 QUESTION: WELL, LET ME SHOW YOU A DOCUMENT

18 THAT HAS PREVIOUSLY BEEN MARKED AS GOVERNMENT

19 EXHIBIT 268. THIS IS A DOCUMENT BEARING

20 MICROSOFT DOCUMENT PRODUCTION STAMPS MS 98

21 0110952 THROUGH 53.

22 THE FIRST PART OF THIS PURPORTS TO BE A COPY

23 OF AN E-MAIL FROM DAN--DON BRADFORD TO BEN

24 WALDMAN, WITH A COPY TO YOU, MR. MARITZ AND

25 OTHERS, ON THE SUBJECT OF, QUOTE, JAVA ON _________________________________________________________________

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1 MACINTOSH/IE CONTROL.

2 DID YOU RECEIVE A COPY OF THIS E-MAIL ON OR

3 ABOUT FEBRUARY 13TH, 1998?

4 ANSWER: I DON'T KNOW."

5 "QUESTION: DO YOU HAVE ANY REASON TO DOUBT

6 THAT YOU RECEIVED A COPY OF THIS E-MAIL?

7 ANSWER: NO.

8 QUESTION: THE FIRST PARAGRAPH READS, QUOTE,

9 APPLE WANTS TO KEEP BOTH NETSCAPE AND MICROSOFT

10 DEVELOPING BROWSERS FOR MAC--BELIEVING IF ONE

11 DROPS OUT, THE OTHER WILL LOSE INTEREST (AND ALSO

12 NOT REALLY WANTING TO PICK UP THE DEVELOPMENT

13 BURDEN). GETTING APPLE TO DO ANYTHING THAT

14 SIGNIFICANTLY MATERIALLY DISADVANTAGES NETSCAPE

15 WILL BE TOUGH. DO YOU AGREE THAT APPLE SHOULD BE

16 MEETING--IT READS, DO AGREE THAT APPLE SHOULD BE

17 MEETING THE SPIRIT OF OUR CROSS-LICENSE AGREEMENT

18 AND THAT MACOFFICE IS THE PERFECT CLUB TO USE ON

19 THEM.

20 DO YOU HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT

21 MR. BRADFORD MEANS WHEN HE REFERS TO MACOFFICE

22 AS, QUOTE, THE PERFECT CLUB TO USE ON APPLE, _________________________________________________________________

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1 CLOSED QUOTE?

2 ANSWER: NO.

3 QUESTION: THE SECOND SENTENCE OF THAT

4 PARAGRAPH, THE ONE THAT READS `GETTING APPLE TO

5 DO ANYTHING THAT SIGNIFICANTLY MATERIALLY

6 DISADVANTAGES NETSCAPE WILL BE TOUGH,' WAS IT

7 YOUR UNDERSTANDING IN FEBRUARY OF 1998 THAT

8 MICROSOFT WAS TRYING TO GET APPLE TO DO SOMETHING

9 TO DISADVANTAGE NETSCAPE?

10 ANSWER: NO.

11 QUESTION: DO YOU KNOW WHY MR. BRADFORD

12 WOULD HAVE WRITTEN THIS IN FEBRUARY OF 1998 AND

13 SENT A COPY TO YOU?

14 ANSWER: I'M NOT SURE.

15 QUESTION: DID YOU EVER SAY TO MR. BRADFORD,

16 IN WORDS OR IN SUBSTANCE, IN FEBRUARY OF 1988 OR

17 THEREAFTER, `MR. BRADFORD, YOU GOT IT WRONG. WE

18 ARE NOT OUT TO SIGNIFICANTLY OR MATERIALLY

19 DISADVANTAGE NETSCAPE THROUGH APPLE?

20 ANSWER: NO.

21 QUESTION: DID YOU EVER TELL MR. BRADFORD OR

22 ANYONE ELSE IN FEBRUARY 1998 OR THEREAFTER THAT

23 THEY SHOULD NOT BE TRYING TO GET APPLE TO DO

24 THINGS THAT WOULD SIGNIFICANTLY OR MATERIALLY

25 DISADVANTAGE NETSCAPE? _________________________________________________________________

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1 ANSWER: NO.

2 QUESTION: WHAT WAS MR. BRADFORD'S POSITION

3 IN FEBRUARY OF 1998?

4 ANSWER: I THINK HE HAD A SMALL GROUP IN

5 CALIFORNIA THAT WORKED--I'M NOT SURE WHO HE

6 WORKED FOR. HE PROBABLY WORKED FOR SOMEBODY WHO

7 WORKED FOR SILVERBERG--NO. NO, I'M NOT SURE WHO

8 HE WORKED FOR.

9 QUESTION: LET'S BEGIN WITH WHAT COMPANY HE

10 WORKED FOR. HE CLEARLY WORKED FOR MICROSOFT;

11 CORRECT, SIR?

12 ANSWER: THAT'S RIGHT.

13 QUESTION: AND DO YOU KNOW WHAT HIS TITLE

14 WAS?

15 ANSWER: NO.

16 QUESTION: DO YOU KNOW WHO MR. WALDMAN IS?

17 ANSWER: YES.

18 QUESTION: WHAT WAS HIS TITLE IN FEBRUARY OF

19 1998?

20 ANSWER: I DON'T KNOW.

21 QUESTION: WHAT WERE HIS RESPONSIBILITIES IN

22 FEBRUARY OF 1998?

23 ANSWER: HE WAS--HE RAN A GROUP THAT WAS

24 DOING MACINTOSH SOFTWARE. NEITHER OF THESE GUYS

25 HAVE A TITLE LIKE `VICE PRESIDENT;' THAT I CAN _________________________________________________________________

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1 SAY FOR SURE. SO, THEY--YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE A

2 TITLE LIKE ENGINEER OR SOFTWARE ENGINEER,

3 SOFTWARE ENGINEER MANAGER, BUT I DON'T KNOW THEIR

4 TITLE. THEY'RE NOT EXECUTIVES.

5 QUESTION: IN ADDITION TO YOU AND

6 MR. MARITZ, COPIES OF THIS GO TO DAVID COLE, DAVE

7 REED, CHARLES FITZGERALD, AND JOHN DEVAAN.

8 DO YOU KNOW WHAT MR. COLE'S POSITION WAS IN

9 1998?

10 ANSWER: YES.

11 QUESTION: WHAT WAS IT?

12 ANSWER: HE WAS THE VP--ACTUALLY, I DON'T

13 KNOW VP OF WHAT, BUT HE WAS A VP WORKING FOR--I

14 DON'T KNOW IF WE REORGANIZED BY THEN. HE WAS IN

15 MARITZ'S ORGANIZATION SOMEWHERE."

16 (PAUSE.)

17 "QUESTION: AND MR. DEVAAN?

18 ANSWER: MR. DEVAAN WAS MANAGING THE OVERALL

19 OFFICE DEVELOPMENT.

20 QUESTION: DID YOU HAVE ANY CONVERSATIONS

21 WITH ANYONE WITHIN MICROSOFT AS TO WHAT POSITION

22 MICROSOFT SHOULD TAKE WITH APPLE IN TERMS OF WHAT

23 MICROSOFT SHOULD ASK APPLE FOR IN RETURN FOR

24 MICROSOFT DEVELOPING MACOFFICE?

25 ANSWER: WHAT TIME FRAME ARE YOU IN? _________________________________________________________________

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1 QUESTION: 1997 OR 1998.

2 ANSWER: WELL, IT ACTUALLY MAKES A BIG

3 DIFFERENCE. WE REACHED AN AGREEMENT WITH APPLE

4 IN 1997, AND THERE IS NO--I'M NOT AWARE OF ANY

5 AGREEMENT OTHER THAN THE 1997 ONE.

6 MR. BOIES: COULD I HAVE THE QUESTION READ

7 BACK.

8 (THE RECORD WAS READ AS FOLLOWS):

9 QUESTION: DID YOU HAVE ANY CONVERSATIONS

10 WITH ANYONE WITHIN MICROSOFT AS TO WHAT POSITION

11 MICROSOFT SHOULD TAKE WITH APPLE IN TERMS OF WHAT

12 MICROSOFT SHOULD ASK APPLE FOR IN RETURN FOR

13 MICROSOFT DEVELOPING MACOFFICE?

14 THE WITNESS: I'M NOT SURE WHAT YOU'RE

15 SAYING ABOUT MACOFFICE. WE DEVELOPED MACOFFICE

16 BECAUSE IT'S A PROFITABLE BUSINESS FOR US.

17 BY MR. BOIES:

18 QUESTION: WELL, YOU THREATENED TO CANCEL

19 MACOFFICE, DID YOU NOT, SIR?

20 ANSWER: NO.

21 QUESTION: YOU NEVER THREATENED APPLE THAT

22 YOU WERE GOING TO CANCEL MACOFFICE? IS THAT YOUR

23 TESTIMONY?

24 ANSWER: THAT'S RIGHT.

25 QUESTION: DID YOU EVER DISCUSS WITHIN _________________________________________________________________

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1 MICROSOFT THREATENING APPLE THAT YOU WERE GOING

2 TO CANCEL MACOFFICE?

3 ANSWER: YOU WOULDN'T CANCEL--NO."

4 "QUESTION: NOW, LET ME DIRECT YOUR

5 ATTENTION TO THE SECOND ITEM ON THE FIRST PAGE OF

6 THIS EXHIBIT. AND THIS PURPORTS TO BE AN E-MAIL

7 FROM MR. WALDMAN TO YOU, DATED JUNE 27, 1997; IS

8 THAT CORRECT, SIR?

9 ANSWER: THE SECOND ONE, UMM-HMM.

10 QUESTION: YOU HAVE TO ANSWER AUDIBLY YES OR

11 NO, MR. GATES.

12 ANSWER: YES, THE SECOND ONE.

13 QUESTION: NOW, IN THE SECOND PARAGRAPH OF

14 THIS E-MAIL TO YOU, THE SECOND SENTENCE READS,

15 QUOTE, THE THREAT TO CANCEL MACOFFICE 97 IS

16 CERTAINLY THE STRONGEST BARGAINING POINT WE HAVE,

17 AS DOING SO WILL DO A GREAT DEAL OF HARM TO APPLE

18 IMMEDIATELY,.

19 DO YOU SEE THAT, SIR?

20 ANSWER: UMM-HMM.

21 QUESTION: DO YOU RECALL RECEIVING THIS _________________________________________________________________

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1 E-MAIL IN JUNE OF 1997?

2 ANSWER: NOT SPECIFICALLY.

3 QUESTION: DO YOU HAVE ANY DOUBT THAT YOU

4 RECEIVED THIS E-MAIL IN JUNE OF 1997?

5 ANSWER: NO.

6 QUESTION: DO YOU KNOW WHY MR. WALDMAN WROTE

7 YOU IN JUNE OF 1997 THAT THE THREAT TO CANCEL

8 MACOFFICE 97 IS CERTAINLY THE STRONGEST

9 BARGAINING POINT WE HAVE, AS DOING SO WILL HAVE

10 DO A GREAT DEAL OF HARM TO APPLE IMMEDIATELY?

11 ANSWER: WELL, MR. WALDMAN WAS IN CHARGE OF

12 THIS UPDATE, AND THE MACOFFICE PRODUCT HAD BEEN

13 SHIPPING FOR OVER A DECADE BY NOW, AND THERE WAS

14 A FINANCIAL QUESTION OF WHETHER TO DO THIS

15 UPDATE. AND HE FELT IT MADE GOOD BUSINESS

16 SENTENCE TO DO IT. OTHER PEOPLE, IRRESPECTIVE OF

17 THE RELATIONSHIP WITH APPLE, HAD SAID THAT IT

18 DIDN'T MAKE SENSE TO DO THE UPDATE. AND SO,

19 THERE WAS SOME MAIL FROM BEN, INCLUDING THIS ONE,

20 WHERE HE WAS SAYING HE THOUGHT WE SHOULD GO AHEAD

21 AND FINISH THE PRODUCT.

22 I'M NOT SURE WHAT HE MEANS ABOUT THE

23 NEGOTIATIONS WITH APPLE. I'M NOT SURE WHAT WE

24 WERE NEGOTIATING WITH APPLE AT THIS POINT.

25 QUESTION: WAS THIS THE TIME THAT YOU WERE _________________________________________________________________

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1 NEGOTIATING WITH APPLE TO TRY TO FIND OUT WHAT

2 YOU COULD GET APPLE TO DO TO UNDERMINE SUN?

3 ANSWER: WELL, THE ONLY E-MAIL--THE ONLY

4 THING YOU'VE SHOWN ME WHERE THAT TERM WAS USED IS

5 AFTER WE REACHED A MACOFFICE AGREEMENT WITH

6 APPLE.

7 QUESTION: YOU'RE REFERRING TO YOUR E-MAIL

8 DATED AUGUST 8, 1997; IS THAT CORRECT?

9 ANSWER: THAT'S RIGHT.

10 QUESTION: THAT HAS BEEN MARKED AS

11 EXHIBIT 265; IS THAT CORRECT?

12 ANSWER: THAT'S RIGHT. THAT'S AFTER.

13 QUESTION: THAT'S AUGUST 8TH, 1997?

14 ANSWER: THAT'S RIGHT.

15 QUESTION: AND IT IS CLEAR FROM YOUR AUGUST

16 8TH, 1997, MEMO THAT YOU ARE STILL ATTEMPTING TO

17 GET APPLE TO DO ADDITIONAL THINGS, IS IT NOT,

18 SIR?

19 ANSWER: NO.

20 QUESTION: WELL, SIR, LET'S READ IT. IT IS

21 ONLY THREE LINES. YOU QUITE, QUOTE, I WANT TO

22 GET AS MUCH MILEAGE AS POSSIBLE OUT OF OUR

23 BROWSER AND JAVA RELATIONSHIP HERE.

24 AND WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT `HERE,' YOU'RE

25 TALKING ABOUT WITH APPLE, ARE YOU NOT, SIR? _________________________________________________________________

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1 ANSWER: I'M NOT SURE.

2 QUESTION: WELL, THE SUBJECT OF THIS IS `FW:

3 POST-AGREEMENT;' CORRECT, SIR?

4 ANSWER: YEAH. THAT'S WHAT MAKES ME THINK

5 THIS WAS PROBABLY POST-AGREEMENT.

6 QUESTION: POST-AGREEMENT WITH APPLE; RIGHT?

7 ANSWER: YES.

8 QUESTION: OKAY. SO, THE SUBJECT IS

9 POST-AGREEMENT WITH APPLE, AND THE VERY FIRST

10 SENTENCE SAYS, `I WANT TO GET AS MUCH MILEAGE AS

11 POSSIBLE OUT OF OUR BROWSER AND JAVA RELATIONSHIP

12 HERE.'

13 THE SECOND SENTENCE SAYS, `IN OTHER WORDS, A

14 REAL ADVANTAGE AGAINST SUN AND NETSCAPE.'

15 THE THIRD LINE SAYS, `WHO SHOULD AVI BE

16 WORKING WITH? DO WE HAVE A CLEAR PLAN ON WHAT WE

17 WANT APPLE TO DO TO UNDERMINE SUN?'

18 NOW, DO YOU HAVE ANY DOUBT THAT WHEN YOU

19 TALK ABOUT `I WANT TO GET AS MUCH MILEAGE AS

20 POSSIBLE OUT OF OUR BROWSER AND JAVA RELATIONSHIP

21 HERE,' YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT APPLE?

22 ANSWER: THAT'S WHAT IT APPEARS.

23 QUESTION: OKAY. DO YOU HAVE ANY

24 RECOLLECTION OF ANY DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THE SUBJECT

25 MATTER OF THIS E-MAIL IN OR ABOUT AUGUST OF 1997? _________________________________________________________________

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1 IF THE QUESTION WAS CONFUSING, I WOULD BE

2 HAPPY TO REPHRASE IT, MR. GATES.

3 ANSWER: GO AHEAD.

4 QUESTION: DID YOU SEND THIS E-MAIL?

5 ANSWER: IT APPEARS I DID.

6 QUESTION: DID YOU DISCUSS THIS E-MAIL WITH

7 ANYONE?

8 ANSWER: I DON'T REMEMBER THAT.

9 QUESTION: LET ME GO BACK TO EXHIBIT 263,

10 WHICH IS THE JUNE 27, 1997, E-MAIL FROM

11 MR. WALDMAN TO YOU.

12 DO YOU RECALL--AND I KNOW YOU'VE SAID YOU

13 DON'T RECALL RECEIVING THIS E-MAIL, BUT DO YOU

14 RECALL ANYONE DESCRIBING THE THREAT TO CANCEL

15 MACOFFICE 97 AS A BARGAINING POINT THAT YOU HAVE

16 IN DEALINGS WITH APPLE, IN OR ABOUT JUNE OF 1997?

17 ANSWER: I REMEMBER GOING TO MEETINGS WHERE

18 PAUL MARITZ TOOK THE POSITION THAT WE SHOULDN'T

19 DO THE UPDATE, AND--THE MACOFFICE 97 UPDATE.

20 AND THE MAIN NEGOTIATION WE HAD WITH APPLE

21 AT THIS POINT WAS A DISCUSSION ABOUT A PATENT

22 CROSS-LICENSE, AND SO I SAID TO PAUL I WANTED TO

23 UNDERSTAND BETTER WHERE WE WERE ON THE PATENT

24 CROSS-LICENSE AND UNDERSTAND THE STATE OF THE

25 MACOFFICE DEVELOPMENT. _________________________________________________________________

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1 AND THEN IT APPEARS THAT THIS IS AN E-MAIL

2 THAT IS COMING AFTER THAT MEETING. I DON'T

3 REMEMBER SOMEBODY USING THOSE EXACT WORDS.

4 QUESTION: WHETHER YOU REMEMBER SOMEBODY

5 USING THE EXACT WORDS THAT MR. WALDMAN USES IN

6 HIS JUNE 27, 1997, E-MAIL TO YOU, DO YOU REMEMBER

7 PEOPLE TELLING YOU, IN SUBSTANCE, THAT THE THREAT

8 TO CANCEL MACOFFICE 97 WAS A STRONG BARGAINING

9 POINT THAT YOU HAD AGAINST APPLE AND THAT

10 CANCELING MACOFFICE 97 WOULD DO A GREAT DEAL OF

11 HARM TO APPLE IMMEDIATELY?

12 ANSWER: I KNOW THERE WAS THE INTERNAL

13 DEBATE ABOUT WHETHER TO DO THE UPDATE, AND I KNOW

14 THERE WAS THE PATENT DISCUSSION GOING ON. AND I

15 SAID THAT MAYBE--EVEN IF IT DIDN'T MAKE BUSINESS

16 SENSE TO DO THE UPDATE, MAYBE AS PART OF AN

17 OVERALL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PATENT

18 CROSS-LICENSE, THAT WE SHOULD GO AHEAD AND DO IT.

19 AND SO, A COMMITMENT TO DO THE UPGRADE WAS

20 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE TOLD APPLE WE MIGHT

21 COMMIT TO AS PART OF THE PATENT CROSS-LICENSE

22 RELATIONSHIP.

23 QUESTION: AND DID YOU BELIEVE IN 1997 THAT

24 CANCELING MACOFFICE 97 WOULD DO A GREAT DEAL OF

25 HARM TO APPLE, AS MR. WALDMAN WRITES YOU IT _________________________________________________________________

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1 WOULD?

2 ANSWER: THERE WAS A QUESTION ABOUT WHETHER

3 TO DO THE UPGRADE AND WHETHER IT MADE BUSINESS

4 SENSE. I CAN'T REALLY SAY HOW MUCH IMPACT IT

5 WOULD HAVE ON APPLE OF US DOING THE UPGRADE OR

6 NOT. CERTAINLY BEN, AS THE PERSON IN CHARGE OF

7 THE UPGRADE, WAS VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT ITS

8 IMPORTANCE AND ITS DRAMATIC NATURE.

9 QUESTION: MY QUESTION TO YOU NOW, SIR, IS

10 WHETHER YOU BELIEVED THAT CANCELING MACOFFICE 97

11 WOULD DO A GREAT DEAL OF HARM TO APPLE.

12 ANSWER: WELL, I KNOW THAT APPLE WOULD

13 PREFER THAT WE HAVE A MORE UPDATED VERSION OF

14 MACOFFICE, THAT THAT WOULD BE A POSITIVE THING

15 FOR THEM, AND SO THAT'S WHY IT WAS PART OF THE

16 NEGOTIATION RELATIVE TO THE PATENT CROSS-LICENSE.

17 QUESTION: AND DID YOU BELIEVE THAT

18 CANCELING MACOFFICE 97 WOULD DO A GREAT DEAL OF

19 HARM TO APPLE?

20 ANSWER: I TOLD YOU I THINK IT WOULD BE

21 BETTER FOR APPLE TO HAVE EVERYBODY DOING MAJOR

22 UPGRADES LIKE THIS. I DOUBT--YOU KNOW, I

23 DON'T--I CAN'T CHARACTERIZE THE LEVEL OF BENEFIT

24 OF THE UPGRADE TO APPLE, BUT CERTAINLY IT'S

25 SOMETHING THEY WANTED US TO COMPLETE. _________________________________________________________________

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1 QUESTION: THE NEXT SENTENCE IN

2 MR. WALDMAN'S JUNE 27, 1997, E-MAIL TO YOU

3 BEGINS, `I ALSO BELIEVE THAT APPLE IS TAKING THIS

4 THREAT PRETTY SERIOUSLY.'

5 DID SOMEONE TELL YOU, IN OR ABOUT JUNE OF

6 1997, THAT APPLE WAS TAKING MICROSOFT'S THREAT TO

7 CANCEL MACOFFICE 97 SERIOUSLY OR PRETTY

8 SERIOUSLY?

9 ANSWER: WELL, MARITZ HAD TAKEN THE POSITION

10 THAT IT DIDN'T MAKE BUSINESS SENSE TO FINISH THIS

11 UPGRADE, AND IT'S VERY POSSIBLE APPLE MIGHT HAVE

12 HEARD ABOUT MARITZ'S OPINION THERE AND,

13 THEREFORE, BEEN WORRIED THAT WE, BUSINESS-WISE,

14 DIDN'T SEE A REASON TO COMPLETE THE UPGRADE, AND

15 THAT THEY--THEY WOULD HAVE THE OLDER MACOFFICE AS

16 OPPOSED TO THIS NEW WORK THAT WE WERE PARTWAY

17 ALONG ON.

18 QUESTION: MR. GATES, MY QUESTION IS NOT

19 WHAT POSITION MR. MARITZ DID OR DID NOT TAKE. MY

20 QUESTION IS WHETHER ANYONE TOLD YOU, IN OR ABOUT

21 JUNE OF 1997, THAT APPLE WAS TAKING PRETTY

22 SERIOUSLY MICROSOFT'S THREAT TO CANCEL

23 MACOFFICE 97.

24 ANSWER: APPLE MAY HAVE KNOWN THAT SENIOR

25 EXECUTIVES AT MICROSOFT, MARITZ IN PARTICULAR, _________________________________________________________________

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1 THOUGHT THAT IT DIDN'T MAKE BUSINESS SENSE TO

2 COMPLETE THAT UPGRADE.

3 QUESTION: MR. GATES, I'M NOT ASKING YOU

4 WHAT APPLE MAY HAVE KNOWN OR MAY NOT HAVE KNOWN.

5 WHAT I'M ASKING YOU IS WHETHER ANYBODY TOLD YOU,

6 IN OR ABOUT JUNE OF 1997, THAT APPLE WAS TAKING

7 PRETTY SERIOUSLY MICROSOFT'S THREAT TO CANCEL

8 MACOFFICE 97.

9 ANSWER: THOSE PARTICULAR WORDS?

10 QUESTION: TOLD YOU THAT IN WORDS OR IN

11 SUBSTANCE.

12 ANSWER: I THINK I REMEMBER HEARING THAT

13 APPLE HAD HEARD ABOUT MARITZ'S VIEW THAT IT

14 DIDN'T MAKE SENSE TO CONTINUE THE UPGRADE,

15 BUT--AND THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY WANTED US TO

16 CONTINUE THE UPGRADE. BUT I--I DON'T REMEMBER

17 ANY OF THE--IT BEING PHRASED AT ALL THE WAY

18 YOU'RE PHRASING IT.

19 QUESTION: WELL, THE WAY I'M PHRASING IT IS

20 THE WAY THAT MR. WALDMAN PHRASED IT TO YOU IN HIS

21 E-MAIL OF JUNE 27 OF 1997; CORRECT, SIR?

22 ANSWER: WELL, IN READING IT, I SEE THOSE

23 WORDS, YES."

24 (PAUSE.)

25 "QUESTION: MR. GATES, MR. WALDMAN, ON JUNE _________________________________________________________________

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1 27, 1997, SENDS YOU AN E-MAIL THAT SAYS, `THE

2 THREAT TO CANCEL MACOFFICE 97 IS CERTAINLY THE

3 STRONGEST BARGAINING POINT WE HAVE, AS DOING SO

4 WILL DO A GREAT DEAL OF HARM TO APPLE

5 IMMEDIATELY. I ALSO BELIEVE THAT APPLE IS TAKING

6 THIS THREAT PRETTY SERIOUSLY,' CLOSED QUOTE.

7 DO YOU RECALL ANYONE--

8 ANSWER: DO YOU WANT TO FINISH THE SENTENCE

9 OR NOT?

10 QUESTION: YOU CAN, IF YOU THINK IT IS

11 NECESSARY TO ANSWER THE QUESTION.

12 DO YOU RECALL ANYONE TELLING YOU WHAT I HAVE

13 JUST QUOTED, IN WORDS OR IN SUBSTANCE, IN OR

14 ABOUT JUNE OF 1997?

15 ANSWER: NO."

16 (PAUSE.)

17 "QUESTION: OKAY. LET ME ASK YOU TO LOOK AT

18 A DOCUMENT PREVIOUSLY MARKED AS GOVERNMENT

19 EXHIBIT 260."

20 DID YOU SEND THIS E-MAIL, MR. GATES, ON OR

21 ABOUT JUNE 23, 1996?

22 ANSWER: I DON'T REMEMBER IT SPECIFICALLY,

23 BUT I DON'T HAVE ANY REASON TO DOUBT THAT I DID.

24 QUESTION: IN THE SECOND PARAGRAPH YOU SAY,

25 QUOTE, I HAVE TWO KEY GOALS IN INVESTING IN THE

26 APPLE RELATIONSHIP: ONE, MAINTAIN OUR

27 APPLICATIONS SHARE ON THE PLATFORM; AND TWO, SEE

28 IF WE CAN GET THEM TO EMBRACE INTERNET EXPLORER

29 IN SOME WAY, CLOSED QUOTE.

30 DO YOU SEE THAT?

31 ANSWER: YEAH.

32 QUESTION: DOES THAT REFRESH YOUR

33 RECOLLECTION AS TO WHAT YOUR TWO KEY GOALS WERE

34 IN CONNECTION WITH APPLE IN JUNE OF 1996?

35 ANSWER: FIRST OF ALL, JUNE OF 1996 IS NOT

36 IN THE TIME FRAME THAT YOUR PREVIOUS QUESTION

37 RELATED TO. AND CERTAINLY IN THE E-MAIL TO THIS

38 GROUP, I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THE PATENT THING,

39 BUT BELIEVE ME, IT WAS OUR TOP GOAL IN THINKING

40 ABOUT APPLE FOR MANY, MANY YEARS BECAUSE OF THEIR _________________________________________________________________

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1 ASSERTIONS.

2 QUESTION: MY TIME FRAME IN MY QUESTION,

3 SIR, WAS A TIME FRAME BEGINNING IN 1996, WHEN YOU

4 BEGAN TO VIEW NETSCAPE OR THE JAVA RUNTIME THREAT

5 AS A COMPETITIVE THREAT TO MICROSOFT.

6 ANSWER: AND THAT WAS AFTER JUNE OF 1996.

7 QUESTION: AND IS IT YOUR TESTIMONY THAT IN

8 JUNE OF 1996 YOU DID NOT CONSIDER NETSCAPE TO BE

9 A COMPETITIVE THREAT TO MICROSOFT?

10 ANSWER: NETSCAPE WAS A COMPETITOR, BUT IN

11 TERMS OF JAVA AND ALL THE RUNTIME-RELATED ISSUES,

12 WE DIDN'T HAVE A CLEAR VIEW OF THAT AT ALL.

13 QUESTION: SO THAT--I WANT TO BE SURE I'VE

14 GOT YOUR TESTIMONY ACCURATELY.

15 IT IS YOUR TESTIMONY THAT IN JUNE OF 1996

16 YOU CONSIDERED NETSCAPE TO BE A COMPETITIVE

17 THREAT, BUT YOU DID NOT CONSIDER JAVA OR JAVA

18 RUNTIME TO BE A COMPETITIVE THREAT; IS THAT YOUR

19 TESTIMONY?

20 ANSWER: WE CONSIDERED NETSCAPE TO BE A

21 COMPETITOR, AND I TOLD YOU EARLIER THAT UNTIL

22 LATE '96, WE WERE UNCLEAR ABOUT OUR POSITION ON

23 VARIOUS JAVA RUNTIME THINGS AND WHAT OTHER

24 COMPANIES WERE DOING AND WHAT THAT MEANT FOR US

25 COMPETITIVELY. _________________________________________________________________

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1 QUESTION: DO YOU AGREE THAT IN JUNE OF

2 1996, THE TWO KEY GOALS THAT YOU HAD IN TERMS OF

3 THE APPLE RELATIONSHIP WERE, QUOTE, ONE, MAINTAIN

4 YOUR APPLICATIONS SHARE ON THE PLATFORM; AND TWO,

5 SEE IF YOU COULD GET APPLE TO EMBRACE INTERNET

6 EXPLORER IN SOME WAY?

7 ANSWER: NO.

8 QUESTION: DO YOU HAVE ANY EXPLANATION FOR

9 WHY YOU WOULD HAVE WRITTEN TO MR. MARITZ AND

10 MR. SILVERBERG ON JUNE 23, 1996, THAT THOSE WERE

11 YOUR TWO KEY GOALS IN THE APPLE RELATIONSHIP?

12 ANSWER: NO, THEY WEREN'T INVOLVED IN THE

13 PATENT ISSUE AT ALL, SO WHEN I WRITE TO THEM, I'M

14 FOCUSED ON THE ISSUES THAT RELATE TO THEM.

15 I DO MENTION PATENTS IN HERE, BUT THAT

16 CERTAINLY WAS THE PRIMARY GOAL AT THIS TIME AND

17 IN SUBSEQUENT TIMES.

18 QUESTION: LET ME BE CLEAR. WHEN YOU WRITE

19 TO MR. MARITZ AND MR. SILVERBERG, YOU TALK ABOUT

20 PATENTS, DO YOU NOT, SIR?

21 ANSWER: WHERE DO YOU SEE THAT?

22 QUESTION: WELL, DID YOU TALK ABOUT PATENTS?

23 ANSWER: DO YOU WANT ME TO READ THE ENTIRE

24 MAIL?

25 QUESTION: HAVE YOU READ IT ENOUGH TO KNOW _________________________________________________________________

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1 WHETHER YOU TALK ABOUT PATENTS?

2 ANSWER: I SAW THE WORD "PATENT" IN ONE

3 PLACE. IF I READ THE WHOLE THING, I COULD FIND

4 OUT IF IT'S IN THE OTHER PLACES AS WELL.

5 QUESTION: YOU DO TALK ABOUT PATENT

6 CROSS-LICENSE, DO YOU NOT, IN THIS MEMO? AND IF

7 YOU WANT TO LOOK AT THE LAST PAGE, FIVE LINES

8 FROM THE BOTTOM.

9 ANSWER: YEAH, THEY WEREN'T INVOLVED IN THE

10 PATENT ISSUES AT ALL, SO IT LOOKS LIKE IN THIS

11 MAIL I JUST MENTION THAT IN A SUMMARY PART, BUT

12 IT WAS OUR TOP GOAL IN OUR DISCUSSIONS WITH

13 APPLE.

14 QUESTION: WHEN YOU WRITE TO MR. MARITZ AND

15 MR. SILVERBERG, YOU DON'T DESCRIBE THAT AS YOUR

16 TOP GOAL. IN FACT, YOU DON'T EVEN DESCRIBE IT AS

17 ONE OF YOUR TWO OR THREE KEY GOALS; CORRECT, SIR?

18 ANSWER: THIS PIECE OF E-MAIL DOESN'T TALK

19 ABOUT THE PATENT GOAL AS THE TOP GOAL. IT'S MOST

20 LIKELY THAT'S BECAUSE THE PEOPLE COPIED ON THE

21 MAIL DON'T HAVE A THING TO DO WITH IT, AND I

22 WOULDN'T DISTRACT THEM WITH IT.

23 QUESTION: I WANT TO BE SURE I HAVE YOUR

24 TESTIMONY CORRECT.

25 IN JUNE OF 1996, WHAT WAS PAUL MARITZ'S _________________________________________________________________

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1 TITLE?

2 ANSWER: HE WAS INVOLVED IN PRODUCT

3 DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES.

4 QUESTION: HE WAS INVOLVED IN PRODUCT

5 DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES.

6 WHAT WAS HIS TITLE?

7 ANSWER: I DON'T KNOW. SYSTEMS.

8 QUESTION: SYSTEMS?

9 ANSWER: UMM-HMM.

10 QUESTION: DID HE HAVE A TITLE THAT WENT

11 WITH THAT?

12 ANSWER: SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT-SYSTEMS. I

13 DON'T KNOW.

14 QUESTION: SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT-SYSTEMS, I

15 SEE.

16 DID MR. SILVERBERG HAVE A POSITION IN JUNE

17 OF 1996?

18 ANSWER: HE WORKED FOR MR. MARITZ.

19 QUESTION: DID HE HAVE A TITLE?

20 ANSWER: I DON'T KNOW WHAT HIS TITLE WAS AT

21 THE TIME. HE WOULD HAVE BEEN AN OFFICER OF SOME

22 KIND.

23 QUESTION: AN OFFICER OF SOME KIND.

24 SO, YOU'RE WRITING A MEMO TO PAUL MARITZ, A

25 SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT; AND BRAD SILVERBERG, AN _________________________________________________________________

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1 OFFICER OF SOME KIND, AND YOU'RE SENDING COPIES

2 TO FOUR OTHER PEOPLE ON THE SUBJECT OF THE APPLE

3 MEETING. AND YOU SAY, `I HAVE TWO KEY GOALS IN

4 INVESTING IN THE APPLE RELATIONSHIP.'

5 ANSWER: THAT'S QUITE DISTINCT THAN ANY

6 GOALS I MIGHT HAVE FOR A DEAL WITH APPLE. IT

7 SAYS, `I HAVE TWO KEY GOALS IN INVESTING IN THE

8 APPLE RELATIONSHIP,' NOT, `I HAVE TWO KEY GOALS

9 FOR A DEAL WITH APPLE.'

10 QUESTION: WELL, SIR, AT THE BOTTOM YOU SAY

11 WHAT YOU PROPOSE IN TERMS OF A DEAL, AND YOU TALK

12 ABOUT WHAT APPLE WILL GET OUT OF THE DEAL AND

13 WHAT MICROSOFT WILL GET OUT OF THE DEAL; CORRECT,

14 SIR?

15 ANSWER: DO YOU WANT ME TO READ TO YOU THE

16 E-MAIL? I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING MORE THAN

17 JUST WHAT IT SAYS IN THE E-MAIL. I'M GLAD TO

18 READ IT TO YOU.

19 QUESTION: WELL, SIR, DOES IT SAY AT THE

20 BOTTOM OF THE E-MAIL THAT YOU ARE PROPOSING

21 SOMETHING WITH APPLE AND YOU ARE IDENTIFYING WHAT

22 APPLE WOULD GET UNDER YOUR PROPOSED DEAL AND WHAT

23 MICROSOFT WOULD GET UNDER YOUR PROPOSED DEAL?

24 ANSWER: YEAH, THAT'S THE BOTTOM OF THE

25 E-MAIL. _________________________________________________________________

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1 QUESTION: IN FACT, THE BOTTOM OF THE E-MAIL

2 TALKING ABOUT A PROPOSED APPLE MICROSOFT DEAL,

3 YOU SAY, QUOTE, THE DEAL WOULD LOOK LIKE THIS,

4 AND THEN YOU GOT A COLUMN `APPLE GETS' AND A

5 COLUMN `MICROSOFT GETS' AND A COLUMN `BOTH GETS;'

6 RIGHT, SIR?

7 ANSWER: I'M READING THAT.

8 QUESTION: OKAY. NOW, IN THIS E-MAIL OF A

9 PAGE OR A PAGE AND A HALF IN WHICH YOU ARE

10 PROPOSING THIS DEAL, YOU DESCRIBE YOUR TWO KEY

11 GOALS AS MAINTAINING MICROSOFT'S APPLICATIONS

12 SHARE ON THE PLATFORM, AND GETTING APPLE TO

13 EMBRACE INTERNET EXPLORER; CORRECT?

14 ANSWER: NO, THAT'S WRONG.

15 QUESTION: THAT'S WRONG, OKAY.

16 ANSWER: THE WORD `DEAL' AND THE WORD

17 `RELATIONSHIP' ARE NOT THE SAME WORD. THIS SAYS,

18 `I HAVE TWO KEY GOALS IN INVESTING IN THE APPLE

19 RELATIONSHIP.' THIS DOWN HERE IS AN AGREEMENT

20 WHICH I THOUGHT WE COULD REACH WITH APPLE.

21 QUESTION: AND IS IT YOUR TESTIMONY HERE

22 TODAY UNDER OATH THAT YOUR TWO KEY GOALS IN

23 INVESTING IN THE APPLE RELATIONSHIP, WHICH YOU

24 MENTIONED IN THE SECOND PARAGRAPH OF THIS E-MAIL,

25 IS DIFFERENT THAN YOUR TWO KEY GOALS IN THE _________________________________________________________________

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1 PROPOSED DEAL THAT YOU DESCRIBE FIVE PARAGRAPHS

2 LATER?

3 ANSWER: I DON'T SEE ANYTHING IN HERE ABOUT

4 THE KEY GOALS--TWO KEY GOALS IN THE DEAL. I'VE

5 TOLD YOU THAT I'M CERTAIN THAT MY PRIMARY GOAL IN

6 ANY DEAL WAS THE PATENT CROSS-LICENSE.

7 QUESTION: MR. GATES, MY QUESTION IS WHETHER

8 IT IS YOUR TESTIMONY TODAY HERE UNDER OATH THAT

9 WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT YOUR TWO KEY GOALS IN

10 INVESTING IN THE APPLE RELATIONSHIP IN THE SECOND

11 PARAGRAPH OF THIS E-MAIL, THAT IS DIFFERENT THAN

12 WHAT YOUR KEY GOALS WERE IN THE DEAL THAT YOU

13 PROPOSED FIVE PARAGRAPHS LATER?

14 ANSWER: THAT'S RIGHT. INVESTING IN A

15 RELATIONSHIP IS DIFFERENT THAN THE DEAL.

16 QUESTION: NOW, YOU DON'T TELL MR. MARITZ OR

17 MR. SILVERBERG THAT YOUR GOALS FOR INVESTING IN

18 THE APPLE RELATIONSHIP ARE DIFFERENT THAN YOUR

19 GOALS IN THE PROPOSED DEAL, DO YOU, SIR?

20 ANSWER: BUT THE GOALS AND THE DEAL ARE

21 QUITE DIFFERENT, SO OBVIOUSLY, THEY WOULD HAVE

22 KNOWN THEY WERE QUITE DIFFERENT.

23 QUESTION: WELL, SIR, YOU SAY THE GOALS AND

24 THE DEAL ARE QUITE DIFFERENT. ONE OF YOUR TWO

25 KEY GOALS THAT YOU TALK ABOUT IN YOUR FIRST _________________________________________________________________

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1 PARAGRAPH--IN YOUR SECOND PARAGRAPH IS TO GET

2 APPLE TO EMBRACE INTERNET EXPLORER IN SOME WAY.

3 AND THE VERY FIRST THING UNDER WHAT MICROSOFT

4 GETS IN YOUR PROPOSED DEAL IS, QUOTE, APPLE

5 ENDORSES MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER TECHNOLOGY.

6 DO YOU SEE THAT, SIR?

7 ANSWER: UMM-HMM.

8 QUESTION: NOW, DOES THAT REFRESH YOUR

9 RECOLLECTION THAT THE DEAL THAT YOU WERE

10 PROPOSING HAD SOME RELATIONSHIP TO THE TWO KEY

11 GOALS THAT YOU WERE IDENTIFYING?

12 ANSWER: SOME RELATIONSHIP, YES, BUT THEY

13 AREN'T THE SAME THING AT ALL."

14 (PAUSE.)

15 "QUESTION: AND WHEN YOU SAID IN YOUR

16 JUNE 23, 1996, E-MAIL, QUOTE, I HAVE TWO KEY

17 GOALS IN INVESTING IN THE APPLE RELATIONSHIP,

18 CLOSED QUOTE, YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT YOURSELF

19 PERSONALLY; IS THAT CORRECT?

20 ANSWER: YEAH. WHEN I SAY `INVESTING IN THE

21 APPLE RELATIONSHIP,' THAT MEANS SPENDING TIME

22 WITH APPLE AND GROWING THE RELATIONSHIP.

23 QUESTION: AND WHEN IN DESCRIBING THE DEAL

24 THE FIVE PARAGRAPHS LATER, THE VERY FIRST THING

25 THAT MICROSOFT GETS IS, QUOTE, APPLE ENDORSES _________________________________________________________________

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1 MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER TECHNOLOGY, CLOSED

2 QUOTE, DID THAT INDICATE TO YOU THAT THAT WAS AN

3 IMPORTANT PART OF WHAT YOU WERE GETTING IN TERMS

4 OF THE DEAL?

5 ANSWER: NO SUCH DEAL WAS EVER STRUCK, SO

6 I'M NOT SURE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.

7 QUESTION: WAS THAT AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE

8 DEAL THAT YOU WERE TRYING TO GET, SIR?

9 ANSWER: WE NEVER GOT AS FAR AS TRYING TO

10 GET THAT DEAL, UNFORTUNATELY.

11 QUESTION: YOU NEVER GOT AS FAR AS TRYING TO

12 GET THAT DEAL? IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING?

13 ANSWER: NO. WELL, IN THIS TIME FRAME, GIL

14 AMELIO'S TOTAL FOCUS WAS ON HIS NEW OS STRATEGY,

15 AND SO WHAT I OUTLINED HERE WE NEVER--WE NEVER

16 GOT THEM TO CONSIDER.

17 QUESTION: WELL, SIR, YOUR E-MAIL BEGINS,

18 `LAST TUESDAY NIGHT, I WENT DOWN TO ADDRESS THE

19 TOP APPLE EXECUTIVES;' CORRECT, SIR?

20 ANSWER: THAT'S RIGHT.

21 QUESTION: AND DOWN AT THE BOTTOM, WHEN

22 YOU'RE INTRODUCING THE DEAL, YOU SAY, QUOTE, I

23 PROPOSED.

24 NOW, YOU ARE REFERRING TO WHAT YOU PROPOSED

25 TO THE APPLE TOP EXECUTIVES, ARE YOU NOT, SIR? _________________________________________________________________

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1 ANSWER: YES.

2 QUESTION: OKAY. AND WHAT YOU PROPOSED WAS,

3 QUOTE, THE DEAL THAT YOU THEN DESCRIBE AT THE

4 BOTTOM OF THE FIRST PAGE AND THE TOP OF THE

5 SECOND PAGE; CORRECT, SIR?

6 ANSWER: THAT'S RIGHT.

7 QUESTION: AND THAT WAS A DEAL THAT YOU

8 PROPOSED THE TUESDAY NIGHT BEFORE JUNE 23, 1996,

9 TO WHICH YOU DESCRIBE AS THE TOP APPLE

10 EXECUTIVES; CORRECT, SIR?

11 ANSWER: I PUT FORWARD SOME OF THOSE POINTS.

12 QUESTION: WELL, YOU PUT THEM FORWARD, AND

13 YOU DESCRIBE THEM AS PROPOSING A DEAL; CORRECT,

14 SIR?

15 ANSWER: THAT'S HOW I DESCRIBE IT HERE, YES.

16 QUESTION: ALL RIGHT, SIR. NOW, YOU'D SAID

17 THAT THE DEAL THAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT NEVER

18 GOT DONE.

19 DID YOU EVER GET APPLE TO ENDORSE MICROSOFT

20 INTERNET EXPLORER TECHNOLOGY?

21 ANSWER: YOU'RE TRYING TO JUST READ PART OF

22 THAT?

23 QUESTION: I'M ACTUALLY--WHAT I'M DOING IS

24 ASKING A QUESTION RIGHT NOW, SIR. I'M ASKING

25 WHETHER IN 1996 OR OTHERWISE, AT ANY TIME, DID _________________________________________________________________

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1 YOU GET APPLE TO ENDORSE MICROSOFT INTERNET

2 EXPLORER TECHNOLOGY?

3 ANSWER: WELL, YOU CAN GET A COPY OF THE

4 AGREEMENT WE REACHED WITH APPLE AND DECIDE IF, IN

5 READING THAT, YOU THINK IT MEETS THAT CRITERIA OR

6 NOT.

7 QUESTION: SIR, I'M ASKING YOU--AS THE CHIEF

8 EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF MICROSOFT, I'M ASKING YOU

9 WHETHER YOU BELIEVE THAT YOU ACHIEVED THAT

10 OBJECTIVE.

11 ANSWER: WE DID NOT GET SOME EXCLUSIVE

12 ENDORSEMENT. WE DID GET SOME--THERE'S SOME PART

13 OF THE DEAL THAT HAS TO DO WITH INTERNET EXPLORER

14 TECHNOLOGY.

15 QUESTION: DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT PART OF THE

16 DEAL IS?

17 ANSWER: NOT REALLY. IT HAS SOMETHING TO DO

18 WITH THEY WILL AT LEAST SHIP IT ALONG WITH OTHER

19 BROWSERS.

20 QUESTION: DOES THE DEAL PROHIBIT THEM FROM

21 SHIPPING NETSCAPE'S BROWSER WITHOUT ALSO SHIPPING

22 INTERNET EXPLORER?

23 ANSWER: I'D HAVE TO LOOK AT THE DEAL TO

24 UNDERSTAND.

25 QUESTION: IT'S YOUR TESTIMONY, SITTING HERE _________________________________________________________________

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1 TODAY UNDER OATH, THAT YOU SIMPLY DON'T KNOW, ONE

2 WAY OR THE OTHER, WHETHER APPLE IS TODAY FREE TO

3 SHIP NETSCAPE'S BROWSER WITHOUT ALSO SHIPPING

4 INTERNET EXPLORER?

5 ANSWER: THAT'S RIGHT.

6 QUESTION: WHEN YOU IDENTIFY THINGS AS `KEY

7 GOALS,' DO YOU TYPICALLY TEND TO FOLLOW UP AND

8 SEE TO WHAT EXTENT THOSE GOALS HAVE BEEN

9 ACHIEVED?

10 ANSWER: IN A VERY GENERAL SENSE, YES."

11 (PAUSE.)

12 "QUESTION: DID YOUR GOALS CHANGE?

13 ANSWER: GOALS FOR WHAT? FOR INVESTING IN

14 THIS RELATIONSHIP?

15 QUESTION: YOU SAY IN THIS E-MAIL THAT YOU

16 HAVE TWO KEY GOALS FOR INVESTING IN THE APPLE

17 RELATIONSHIP. ONE OF--

18 ANSWER: IN INVESTING IN THE APPLE

19 RELATIONSHIP.

20 QUESTION: ONE OF THEM IS TO GET APPLE TO

21 EMBRACE INTERNET TECHNOLOGY IN SOME WAY. WHAT

22 I'M ASKING YOU IS WHETHER THAT CHANGED AFTER THIS

23 PERSON GOT FIRED.

24 ANSWER: WE RE-EVALUATED ALL OF OUR THOUGHTS

25 ABOUT WORKING WITH APPLE BASED ON WHAT THE NEW _________________________________________________________________

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1 MANAGEMENT WAS GOING TO DO, WHETHER THEY WERE

2 GOING TO TARGET THE MACHINES, WHAT THEY WERE

3 GOING TO DO WITH THEIR MACHINES. SINCE THEY

4 CONTINUED TO SAY THAT WE WERE IN VIOLATION OF

5 THEIR PATENTS, IT CONTINUED TO BE OUR TOP GOAL TO

6 GET SOME TYPE OF PATENT CROSS-LICENSE.

7 MR. BOIES: READ THE QUESTION BACK, PLEASE.

8 (THE RECORD WAS READ AS FOLLOWS:)

9 QUESTION: YOU SAY IN THIS E-MAIL THAT YOU

10 HAVE TWO KEY GOALS FOR INVESTING IN THE APPLE

11 RELATIONSHIP. ONE OF--

12 ANSWER: IN INVESTING IN THE APPLE

13 RELATIONSHIP.

14 QUESTION: ONE OF THEM IS TO GET APPLE TO

15 EMBRACE INTERNET TECHNOLOGY IN SOME WAY. WHAT

16 I'M ASKING YOU IS WHETHER THAT CHANGED AFTER THIS

17 PERSON GOT FIRED.

18 THE WITNESS: YOU KEEP, EITHER INTENTIONALLY

19 OR UNINTENTIONALLY, TRYING TO CONFUSE MY GOALS

20 FOR INVESTING IN THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE GOALS

21 WE HAD OVERALL FOR VARIOUS DEALINGS WITH APPLE.

22 CERTAINLY, THE GOALS I HAD FOR INVESTING IN THE

23 RELATIONSHIP, THAT I HAD TO START OVER AND

24 RETHINK BECAUSE THE INVESTMENT WAS TO SPEND TIME

25 WITH THE CEO WHO HAD BEEN FIRED. _________________________________________________________________

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1 BY MR. BOIES:

2 QUESTION: MR. GATES, NEITHER IN THIS E-MAIL

3 NOR IN ANY OTHER DOCUMENT THAT EITHER OF US IS

4 AWARE OF, DO YOU MAKE THAT DISTINCTION THAT

5 YOU'RE MAKING NOW; CORRECT?

6 MR. HEINER: OBJECTION.

7 BY MR. BOIES:

8 QUESTION: DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION

9 I'M ASKING?

10 ANSWER: THIS DOCUMENT DOES NOT SAY THAT MY

11 GOALS FOR DEALING--DOES NOT STATE MY GOALS FOR

12 DEALING WITH APPLE UP HERE. IT STATES MY GOALS

13 IN INVESTING IN THE APPLE RELATIONSHIP. SO,

14 THERE IS A CLEAR DISTINCTION RIGHT THERE IN THAT

15 DOCUMENT.

16 QUESTION: MR. GATES, THIS DOCUMENT DEALS

17 WITH A PROPOSED DEAL THAT YOU MADE TO TOP APPLE

18 EXECUTIVES; CORRECT?

19 ANSWER: THAT'S ONLY ONE PART OF WHAT IS IN

20 THE DOCUMENT. THERE IS A PART WHERE IT TALKS

21 ABOUT--YOU NEVER MENTIONED IT, BUT THE FIRST GOAL

22 IS MAINTAIN OUR APPLICATIONS SHARE ON THE

23 PLATFORM. THAT'S SOMETHING I'M DOING IN

24 INVESTING IN THE APPLE RELATIONSHIP, AND THAT'S

25 NOT RELATED TO THE DEAL THAT'S GIVEN--THE _________________________________________________________________

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1 PROPOSED DEAL THAT'S DISCUSSED BELOW IN THE

2 E-MAIL.

3 SO, THOSE ARE CLEARLY TWO SEPARATE THINGS.

4 RELATED, BUT SEPARATE.

5 QUESTION: WHAT I THINK I'VE DONE IS I THINK

6 I HAVE MENTIONED THE FIRST GOAL A NUMBER OF

7 TIMES.

8 ANSWER: I DON'T THINK SO."

9 "QUESTION: NOW, YOU SAY HERE, `I HAVE TWO

10 KEY GOALS IN INVESTING IN APPLE RELATIONSHIP, ONE

11 OF WHICH WAS TO GET APPLE TO EMBRACE INTERNET

12 EXPLORER TECHNOLOGY IN SOME WAY.'

13 DID THAT CONTINUE TO BE A GOAL THAT YOU HAD

14 AFTER 1996?

15 ANSWER: IT WASN'T A GOAL IN INVESTING IN

16 THE APPLE RELATIONSHIP IN TERMS--IN THE SENSE I

17 MEANT IT HERE. IT WAS A GOAL FOR OUR OVERALL

18 DEALING WITH APPLE.

19 QUESTION: OKAY. _________________________________________________________________

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1 ANSWER: ONE OF MANY.

2 QUESTION: OKAY. WAS IT A KEY GOAL?

3 ANSWER: I'M NOT SURE WHAT YOU MEAN BY `KEY

4 GOAL.' IT WAS A GOAL.

5 QUESTION: WHAT I MEAN BY KEY GOAL IS WHAT

6 YOU MEANT BY KEY GOAL IN YOUR JUNE 23, 1996,

7 E-MAIL, MR. GATES.

8 ANSWER: THAT'S ABOUT INVESTING IN THE APPLE

9 RELATIONSHIP, WHICH MEANT SPENDING TIME WITH GIL

10 AMELIO, SO I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU CAN TAKE THE WORD

11 OUT OF THERE AND APPLY IT TO A COMPLETELY

12 DIFFERENT CONTEXT.

13 QUESTION: BUT, SIR, WHEN YOU SAY A

14 COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CONTEXT, LET'S BE CLEAR

15 ABOUT WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT.

16 THE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CONTEXT THAT YOU'RE

17 TALKING ABOUT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN INVESTING

18 IN THE APPLE RELATIONSHIP AND DOING A DEAL WITH

19 APPLE; IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING?

20 ANSWER: NO. WE HAVE GOALS FOR OUR GENERAL

21 DEALINGS WITH APPLE, WHICH CAME TO A DEAL--WE

22 ACTUALLY REACHED A DEAL EITHER IN LATE JULY '97

23 OR EARLY AUGUST. BUT THERE WAS A SEPARATE THING

24 OF WHAT WAS THAT DEAL, WHAT WERE WE ABLE TO

25 ACHIEVE, WHAT WERE WE TRYING TO ACHIEVE WHEN WE _________________________________________________________________

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1 WERE NEGOTIATING WITH THE PREVIOUS MANAGEMENT A

2 DEAL, AND WHAT I'M TRYING TO DO IN TERMS OF

3 SPENDING MY TIME INVESTING IN THE APPLE

4 RELATIONSHIP.

5 QUESTION: AND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS, IT IS

6 YOUR TESTIMONY UNDER OATH, AND ALTHOUGH YOU CAN'T

7 RECALL ACTUALLY HAVING SENT THIS E-MAIL, YOU'RE

8 CONFIDENT WHEN YOU WROTE THIS AND REFERRED TO

9 INVESTING IN THE APPLE RELATIONSHIP, YOU MEANT

10 ONLY WHAT YOU EXPECTED TO GET OUT OF SPENDING

11 TIME WITH THE APPLE EXECUTIVES; IS THAT YOUR

12 TESTIMONY?

13 ANSWER: YEAH, I WAS EXPLAINING WHY I WAS

14 SPENDING TIME WITH GIL AMELIO.

15 QUESTION: AND THAT'S ALL YOU MEANT TO BE

16 SAYING HERE, IS YOUR TESTIMONY?

17 ANSWER: THAT'S WHAT--IN READING THIS,

18 THAT'S WHAT I BELIEVE I WAS TRYING TO COMMUNICATE

19 TO THE RECIPIENTS OF THE E-MAIL.

20 QUESTION: ALL RIGHT, SIR. LET ME ASK YOU

21 TO LOOK AT A DOCUMENT PREVIOUSLY MARKED AS

22 GOVERNMENT EXHIBIT 255." _________________________________________________________________

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1 "QUESTION: THIS PURPORTS TO BE AN E-MAIL,

2 AND THE SECOND ITEM ON THE E-MAIL IS AN E-MAIL

3 FROM JOHN LUDWIG TO DON BRADFORD, DATED AUGUST

4 21, 1997, AND THE SUBJECT IS `CONVERSATIONS WITH

5 BILLG LAST NIGHT.'

6 AND THE BILLG REFERRED TO THERE IS YOU;

7 CORRECT, SIR?

8 ANSWER: YES.

9 QUESTION: AND IT BEGINS, `I WAS AT THE EXEC

10 STAFF MEETING LAST NIGHT.'

11 AND CAN YOU EXPLAIN FOR THE RECORD WHAT THE

12 `EXEC STAFF MEETING' WAS.

13 ANSWER: HE IS REFERRING TO A REGULAR

14 GET-TOGETHER FOUR TIMES A YEAR OF THE MICROSOFT

15 EXECUTIVE STAFF.

16 QUESTION: AND HE GOES ON TO SAY THAT THERE

17 WERE THREE INTERESTING EXCHANGES WITH BILL AND

18 THE WHOLE GROUP ABOUT APPLE. DO YOU SEE THAT?

19 ANSWER: I SEE IT.

20 QUESTION: AND NUMBER ONE IS, QUOTE, BILL'S

21 TOP PRIORITY IS FOR US TO GET THE BROWSER IN THE

22 OCTOBER OS RELEASE FROM APPLE. WE SHOULD DO

23 WHATEVER IT TAKES TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN. IF WE ARE

24 GETTING SHUT OUT, WE SHOULD ESCALATE TO BILL. _________________________________________________________________

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1 YOU SHOULD MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE ENGAGING DEEPLY

2 WITH APPLE ON THIS ONE AND RESOLVING ANY AND ALL

3 ISSUES, CLOSED QUOTE.

4 DO YOU RECALL CONVEYING TO YOUR EXECUTIVE

5 STAFF, IN OR ABOUT AUGUST OF 1997, THAT YOUR TOP

6 PRIORITY WAS TO GET MICROSOFT'S BROWSER IN THE

7 OCTOBER OS RELEASE FROM APPLE?

8 ANSWER: NO, I DON'T RECALL THAT.

9 QUESTION: THE TOP E-MAIL, WHICH IS FROM DON

10 BRADFORD TO A NUMBER OF PEOPLE, DATED AUGUST 21,

11 1997, AND IS ALSO ON THE SUBJECT OF, QUOTE,

12 CONVERSATIONS WITH BILLG LAST NIGHT, CLOSED

13 QUOTE, SAYS THAT MR. BRADFORD AND SOMEONE ELSE,

14 MOHAN THOMAS, QUOTE, WILL TAKE THE LEAD ON

15 WORKING OUT THE APPLE BUNDLE DEAL, CLOSED QUOTE.

16 DO YOU SEE THAT?

17 ANSWER: YES.

18 QUESTION: DID YOU INSTRUCT YOUR EXECUTIVE

19 STAFF, IN OR ABOUT AUGUST OF 1997, TO WORK OUT A,

20 QUOTE, APPLE BUNDLE DEAL, CLOSED QUOTE?

21 ANSWER: WELL, I THINK THIS IS POST THE

22 AUGUST AGREEMENT, LATE JULY OR EARLY AUGUST

23 AGREEMENT WE REACHED WITH APPLE. AND I THINK

24 THERE WERE SOME CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER WHICH THEY

25 WOULD INCLUDE OR BUNDLE IE WITH SOME OF THEIR _________________________________________________________________

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1 SHIPMENTS. I THINK THAT'S WHAT THAT'S REFERRING

2 TO.

3 QUESTION: AND IS THAT WHAT YOUR PRESENT

4 RECOLLECTION IS THAT YOU TOLD YOUR EXECUTIVE

5 STAFF IN AUGUST OF 1997?

6 ANSWER: WELL, I DON'T RECALL SPECIFICALLY

7 WHAT I SAID TO THE EXECUTIVE STAFF ABOUT APPLE,

8 BUT IT APPEARS LUDWIG TOOK OUT OF THAT THAT HE

9 WAS SUPPOSED TO MAKE SURE THAT WHATEVER OUTS THAT

10 APPLE HAD UNDER THE PREVIOUS AGREEMENT FOR NOT

11 SHIPPING OUR TECHNOLOGY, THAT WE AVOIDED THOSE

12 BEING A PROBLEM THAT PREVENTED THEM FROM SHIPPING

13 OUR TECHNOLOGY.

14 QUESTION: WELL, APPLE WASN'T PROHIBITED

15 FROM SHIPPING YOUR TECHNOLOGY IN AUGUST OF 1997,

16 WAS IT, SIR?

17 ANSWER: NO. I ACTUALLY THINK THERE WAS--IF

18 WE--I DON'T KNOW THE APPLE AGREEMENT, I HAVEN'T

19 READ IT, BUT I THINK THERE IS SOMETHING IN THERE

20 THAT IF WE GOT CERTAIN THINGS DONE AND IF THERE

21 WERE NO PROBLEMS AND IT PASSED TESTS AND WE WERE

22 READY IN TIME, THAT THEY WOULD ACTUALLY

23 AFFIRMATIVELY INCLUDE SOME OF OUR TECHNOLOGY IN

24 VARIOUS OS RELEASES. AND THIS APPEARS TO BE A

25 DISCUSSION ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT WE ARE GOING TO _________________________________________________________________

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1 BE ABLE TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS ON US RELATED TO

2 THAT.

3 QUESTION: IT IS CLEAR THAT GETTING THE

4 BROWSER IN THE OCTOBER OS RELEASE FROM APPLE WAS

5 SOMETHING THAT YOU, BILL GATES, AND MICROSOFT

6 WANTED; CORRECT, SIR?

7 ANSWER: YES, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE

8 WANTED.

9 QUESTION: OKAY. THE LAST SENTENCE OF THE

10 SECOND PARAGRAPH SAYS, `BILL WAS CLEAR THAT HIS

11 WHOLE GOAL HERE IS TO KEEP APPLE AND SUN SPLIT.

12 HE DOESN'T CARE THAT MUCH ABOUT BEING ALIGNED

13 WITH APPLE. HE JUST WANTS THEM SPLIT FROM OTHER

14 POTENTIAL ALLIES.'

15 AND THAT RELATES TO JAVA, DOES IT NOT, SIR?

16 ANSWER: I DON'T HAVE A DIRECT RECOLLECTION,

17 BUT IF YOU READ THE SENTENCE IN FRONT OF IT, THAT

18 PARAGRAPH SEEMS TO RELATE TO JAVA RUNTIME.

19 QUESTION: NOW, DO YOU HAVE A RECOLLECTION

20 OF TELLING YOUR EXECUTIVE STAFF, IN OR ABOUT

21 AUGUST 21, THAT YOUR WHOLE GOAL WITH RESPECT TO

22 APPLE RELATING TO JAVA RUNTIME WAS TO KEEP APPLE

23 AND SUN SPLIT?

24 ANSWER: NO.

25 QUESTION: WHO WAS AT THIS EXECUTIVE STAFF _________________________________________________________________

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1 MEETING?

2 ANSWER: PROBABLY MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE

3 STAFF.

4 QUESTION: AND WHO WERE THEY?

5 ANSWER: IT'S ABOUT 40 TO 50 PEOPLE. I

6 DOUBT YOU WANT TO TAKE THE TIME FOR ME TO GUESS.

7 WE GENERALLY GET ABOUT 70 PERCENT ATTENDANCE.

8 LOOKING AT THIS DOCUMENT, I THINK IT'S VERY

9 LIKELY THAT I WAS THERE AND JOHN LUDWIG WAS

10 THERE, BUT AS TO THE REST OF THE EXECUTIVE STAFF,

11 I'D JUST BE GUESSING.

12 IT'S VERY RARE FOR US TO HAVE NONEXECUTIVE

13 STAFF MEMBERS AT THOSE MEETINGS, ALTHOUGH

14 SOMETIMES IT HAPPENS.

15 QUESTION: IS MR. LUDWIG SOMEBODY WHO YOU

16 BELIEVE IS AN HONEST AND COMPETENT PERSON?

17 ANSWER: IN GENERAL, YES.

18 QUESTION: DO YOU HAVE ANY REASON TO BELIEVE

19 THAT HE WOULD MAKE UP ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT YOUR

20 STATEMENTS WERE?

21 ANSWER: NO."

1 "QUESTION: LET ME ASK YOU TO LOOK AT A

2 DOCUMENT THAT HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY MARKED AS

3 GOVERNMENT 58.

4 THIS IS AN E-MAIL TO YOU FROM DAN SLIVKA,

5 DATED APRIL 14, 1997. AND THE SUBJECT IS, QUOTE,

6 JAVA REVIEW WITH YOU, CLOSED QUOTE.

7 DID YOU RECEIVE THIS E-MAIL IN OR ABOUT

8 APRIL OF 1997, MR. GATES? _________________________________________________________________

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1 ANSWER: I DON'T REMEMBER.

2 QUESTION: THE E-MAIL BEGINS THAT THE AUTHOR

3 IS WORKING WITH PAUL MARITZ TO SET UP A TWO- TO

4 THREE-HOUR REVIEW FOR YOU ON YOUR JAVA EFFORTS.

5 DO YOU SEE THAT?

6 ANSWER: ON OUR JAVA EFFORTS.

7 QUESTION: ON MICROSOFT'S JAVA EFFORTS.

8 ANSWER: NO, I THINK IT'S BEN SLIVKA'S

9 GROUP.

10 QUESTION: AND HE IS A MICROSOFT GROUP;

11 RIGHT?

12 ANSWER: YES. HE'S PART OF MICROSOFT, BUT

13 NOT ALL OF MICROSOFT.

14 QUESTION: SO, YOU WOULD INTERPRET THIS THAT

15 HE IS WORKING WITH PAUL MARITZ TO SET UP A TWO-

16 TO THREE-HOUR REVIEW FOR YOU OF PART OF

17 MICROSOFT'S JAVA EFFORTS BUT NOT ALL OF

18 MICROSOFT'S JAVA EFFORTS; IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE

19 SAYING?

20 ANSWER: YEAH, THE WORK HIS GROUP IS DOING.

21 QUESTION: THE WORK HIS GROUP IS DOING ON

22 JAVA; RIGHT?

23 ANSWER: RIGHT.

24 QUESTION: OKAY. AND HE LISTS WHAT HE

25 DESCRIBES AS SOME PRETTY POINTED QUESTIONS THAT _________________________________________________________________

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1 YOU, MR. GATES, HAD ABOUT JAVA. DO YOU SEE THAT?

2 ANSWER: WELL, I'M NOT SURE THOSE ARE THE

3 POINTED QUESTIONS. IT SAYS, `I WANT TO MAKE SURE

4 I UNDERSTAND YOUR ISSUES/CONCERNS.'

5 QUESTION: WELL, THAT'S ACTUALLY THE LAST

6 PART OF A SENTENCE THAT BEGINS, QUOTE, WHEN I MET

7 WITH YOU LAST, YOU HAD A LOT OF PRETTY POINTED

8 QUESTIONS ABOUT JAVA, SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE I

9 UNDERSTAND YOUR ISSUES/CONCERNS.

10 THAT'S WHAT THE SENTENCE SAYS; CORRECT, SIR?

11 ANSWER: RIGHT.

12 QUESTION: AND WHEN MR. SLIVKA SAYS, `I MET

13 WITH YOU LAST,' HE'S TALKING ABOUT YOU,

14 MR. GATES; CORRECT, SIR?

15 ANSWER: YES.

16 QUESTION: AND WHEN HE SAYS, `YOU HAD A LOT

17 OF PRETTY POINTED QUESTIONS ABOUT JAVA,' HE'S

18 AGAIN TALKING ABOUT YOU, MR. GATES; CORRECT?

19 ANSWER: RIGHT.

20 QUESTION: AND THEN HE LISTS WHAT HE REFERS

21 TO AS A START: `ONE, WHAT IS OUR BUSINESS MODEL

22 FOR JAVA? TWO, HOW DO WE WREST CONTROL OF JAVA

23 AWAY FROM SUN?'

24 DO YOU SEE THAT?

25 ANSWER: UMM-HMM. _________________________________________________________________

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1 QUESTION: SOMETIME PRIOR TO APRIL 14, 1997,

2 HAD YOU CONVEYED TO MR. SLIVKA THAT ONE OF YOUR

3 POINTED QUESTIONS ABOUT JAVA WAS, QUOTE, HOW DO

4 WE WREST CONTROL OF JAVA AWAY FROM SUN?

5 ANSWER: I DON'T THINK THAT I WOULD HAVE PUT

6 IT THAT WAY. CERTAINLY, IT WAS AN ISSUE ABOUT

7 THE POPULARITY OF SUN'S RUNTIME API'S VERSUS OUR

8 RUNTIME API'S."

9 (PAUSE.)

10 "QUESTION: I TAKE IT YOU KNOW MR. SLIVKA?

11 ANSWER: UMM-HMM.

12 QUESTION: YOU'VE GOT TO ANSWER YES OR NO

13 AUDIBLY SO THE REPORTER CAN TAKE IT DOWN.

14 ANSWER: YES.

15 QUESTION: AND YOU BELIEVE HIM TO BE A

16 PERSON OF COMPETENCE AND INTEGRITY?

17 ANSWER: YES.

18 QUESTION: DO YOU HAVE ANY REASON TO BELIEVE

19 THAT HE WOULD HAVE MISSTATED WHAT YOU TOLD HIM

20 WHEN YOU MET WITH HIM LAST, BEFORE APRIL 14,

21 1997?

22 ANSWER: IN NO WAY DOES THIS PURPORT TO BE

23 A RESTATEMENT OF THINGS I SAID TO BEN SLIVKA.

24 QUESTION: WELL, MR. GATES, WHAT THIS

25 MEMORANDUM SAYS IS, QUOTE, WHEN I MET WITH YOU _________________________________________________________________

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1 LAST, YOU HAD A LOT OF PRETTY POINTED QUESTIONS

2 ABOUT JAVA, SO I WANT TO BE SURE I UNDERSTAND

3 YOUR ISSUES AND CONCERNS. HERE IS A START. CAN

4 YOU PLEASE ADD ANY THAT I'M MISSING? AND THEN HE

5 LISTS SIX, THE SECOND OF WHICH IS, `HOW DO WE

6 WREST CONTROL OF JAVA AWAY FROM SUN?'

7 YOU SEE THAT IN THE EXHIBIT, DO YOU NOT,

8 SIR?

9 ANSWER: UMM-HMM, YES."

10 "QUESTION: DID YOU HAVE PERSONALLY ANY

11 DISCUSSIONS WITH APPLE WITH REGARD TO TRYING TO

12 AGREE WITH APPLE AS TO THE EXTENT TO WHICH APPLE

13 AND MICROSOFT WOULD COMPETE WITH RESPECT TO

14 APPLE'S QUICKTIME SOFTWARE?

15 ANSWER: NO.

16 QUESTION: DO YOU KNOW IF ANYONE FROM

17 MICROSOFT HAD SUCH DISCUSSIONS WITH ANYONE AT _________________________________________________________________

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1 APPLE?

2 ANSWER: I KNOW OVER A COURSE OF YEARS WE'VE

3 TALKED TO THEM ABOUT WHAT THEIR PLANS ARE FOR

4 QUICKTIME, BUT THAT'S ALL.

5 QUESTION: DOES MICROSOFT HAVE SOFTWARE THAT

6 COMPETES WITH QUICKTIME?

7 ANSWER: SINCE QUICKTIME'S A FREE RUNTIME,

8 YOU CAN ANSWER THAT EITHER YES OR NO. IT'S NOT A

9 REVENUE SOURCE FOR APPLE. BUT THERE IS AN APPLE

10 TECHNOLOGY THAT HAS SOME COMMON THINGS WITH SOME

11 MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGIES.

12 QUESTION: DO YOU BELIEVE THAT QUICKTIME

13 SOFTWARE COMPETES WITH ANY SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTED

14 BY MICROSOFT?

15 MR. HEINER: OBJECTION.

16 THE WITNESS: DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU MEAN

17 COMPETE.

18 BY MR. BOIES:

19 QUESTION: USING THAT IN THE WAY THAT YOU

20 WOULD ORDINARILY UNDERSTAND IT IN THE OPERATION

21 OF YOUR BUSINESS, SIR.

22 ANSWER: NO.

23 QUESTION: DID YOU MAKE ANY EFFORT, OR DID

24 MICROSOFT MAKE ANY EFFORT, TO GET APPLE TO AGREE

25 NOT TO MARKET QUICKTIME IN ANY RESPECT, OR TO _________________________________________________________________

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1 LIMIT THE MARKETING OF QUICKTIME IN ANY RESPECT?

2 ANSWER: THERE WERE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT

3 WHETHER WE COULD HELP THEM WITH THEIR QUICKTIME

4 GOALS AT VARIOUS POINTS IN TIME. AND, IN FACT,

5 THEY ENCOURAGED US TO DO SOMETHING WHERE WE'D

6 ACTUALLY, BY WORKING WITH THEM, MAKE QUICKTIME

7 EVEN MORE POPULAR THAN IT IS.

8 MR. BOIES: COULD YOU READ BACK MY QUESTION,

9 PLEASE.

10 (THE RECORD WAS READ AS FOLLOWS:)

11 QUESTION: DID YOU MAKE ANY EFFORT, OR DID

12 MICROSOFT MAKE ANY EFFORT, TO GET APPLE TO AGREE

13 NOT TO MARKET QUICKTIME IN ANY RESPECT, OR TO

14 LIMIT THE MARKETING OF QUICKTIME IN ANY RESPECT?

15 BY MR. BOIES:

16 QUESTION: CAN YOU ANSWER THAT QUESTION,

17 SIR?

18 MR. HEINER: OBJECTION.

19 THE WITNESS: I'M NOT AWARE OF ANYTHING THAT

20 IS DIRECTLY AIMED AS THOSE THINGS, NO.

21 BY MR. BOIES:

22 QUESTION: ARE YOU AWARE OF ANYTHING THAT

23 WAS INDIRECTLY AIMED AT THOSE THINGS?

24 ANSWER: NO.

25 QUESTION: DID, TO YOUR KNOWLEDGE, ANY _________________________________________________________________

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1 REPRESENTATIVE OF MICROSOFT TRY TO CONVINCE APPLE

2 NOT TO SELL OR PROMOTE QUICKTIME FOR USES FOR

3 WHICH MICROSOFT PROMOTES THE USE OF NETSHOW?

4 ANSWER: THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION ABOUT THE

5 FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RUNTIME CODE AND

6 WHETHER WE COULD WORK TOGETHER ON THE WINDOWS

7 SIDE OF THAT RUNTIME CODE THAT WOULD ENHANCE

8 THEIR GOALS AND OUR GOALS.

9 QUESTION: AND WAS THERE A DISCUSSION IN

10 THAT CONTEXT ABOUT APPLE AGREEING NOT TO SELL OR

11 PROMOTE QUICKTIME FOR USES THAT MICROSOFT WAS

12 PROMOTING NETSHOW TO FULFILL?

13 ANSWER: NOT THAT I'M AWARE OF.

14 QUESTION: INSOFAR AS YOU'RE AWARE, DID

15 MICROSOFT REPRESENTATIVES TELL APPLE

16 REPRESENTATIVES THAT IF APPLE WOULD AGREE NOT TO

17 SELL OR PROMOTE QUICKTIME FOR USES FOR WHICH

18 MICROSOFT OFFERED NETSHOW, THAT MICROSOFT WOULD

19 HELP APPLE IN OTHER AREAS?

20 ANSWER: WELL, THE QUICK--AS FAR AS I KNOW,

21 THE QUICKTIME RUNTIME IS FREE. SO, WHEN YOU SAY

22 `SELL,' I DON'T KNOW--I'M NOT SURE WHAT YOU MEAN

23 THERE.

24 QUESTION: I THINK I SAID SELL OR PROMOTE, I

25 CERTAINLY MEANT TO, BUT I WILL USE THE WORD _________________________________________________________________

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1 `DISTRIBUTE,' IF THAT WILL HELP.

2 ANSWER: I THINK THERE WAS A TECHNICAL

3 DISCUSSION ABOUT WHETHER A COMMON RUNTIME WAS

4 ACHIEVABLE WHICH WOULD HAVE ENHANCED THEIR

5 QUICKTIME GOALS.

6 QUESTION: WHEN YOU SAY `A COMMON RUNTIME,'

7 WOULD YOU EXPLAIN WHAT YOU MEAN BY THAT.

8 ANSWER: I MEAN THAT THE WINDOWS MEDIA

9 PLAYER RUNTIME WOULD COMBINE TECHNOLOGY FROM THEM

10 AND FROM US THAT MET ALL OF THEIR GOALS FOR

11 QUICKTIME.

12 QUESTION: AND SO THERE WOULD BE A WINDOWS

13 MEDIA PLAYER THAT WOULD BE DISTRIBUTED, AND APPLE

14 WOULD STOP DISTRIBUTING QUICKTIME FOR PURPOSES

15 FOR WHICH THE WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER WAS

16 DISTRIBUTED; IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING?

17 ANSWER: NO, THEY WOULDN'T HAVE TO STOP

18 ANYTHING. THERE WOULD JUST BE A NEW RUNTIME THAT

19 MIGHT INCORPORATE SOME OF THEIR TECHNOLOGY AND

20 HELP THEM WITH THEIR QUICKTIME GOALS.

21 QUESTION: WELL, WHEN YOU SAY THERE WOULD BE

22 A NEW PROGRAM THAT WOULD INCORPORATE OR MIGHT

23 INCORPORATE SOME OF THEIR TECHNOLOGY, WOULD THAT

24 RESULT IN THEM STOPPING THE DISTRIBUTION OF THEIR

25 EXISTING QUICKTIME TECHNOLOGY? _________________________________________________________________

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1 ANSWER: THERE'S NO REASON IT WOULD NEED TO.

2 QUESTION: WAS THAT PART OF THE DISCUSSIONS?

3 ANSWER: I DON'T THINK SO, BUT AS I TOLD

4 YOU, I WASN'T PART OF ANY OF THOSE DISCUSSIONS.

5 QUESTION: WERE YOU AWARE OF THOSE

6 DISCUSSIONS WHILE THEY WERE GOING ON?

7 ANSWER: I KNEW THAT APPLE HAD A--HAD THE

8 QUICKTIME RUNTIME FOR WINDOWS. AND THERE WAS

9 ALWAYS A QUESTION OF WHETHER WE COULD CREATE A

10 WINDOWS RUNTIME THAT COMBINED WHAT THEIR GOALS

11 WERE THERE AND WHAT THEY HAD DONE WELL THERE FOR

12 THE WORK WE WERE DOING. AND I KNOW WE TALKED TO

13 APPLE ABOUT WHETHER WE COULD HELP EACH OTHER IN

14 AN EFFORT LIKE THAT.

15 QUESTION: WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT HELPING EACH

16 OTHER, WOULD THAT RESULT IN A SINGLE PRODUCT THAT

17 WOULD THEN BE DISTRIBUTED IN PLACE OF BOTH

18 QUICKTIME AND NETSHOW?

19 ANSWER: NO. PEOPLE COULD STILL DISTRIBUTE

20 THEIR OLD THINGS, BUT IF YOU CREATE A NEW THING

21 THAT'S BETTER, IT MIGHT--SOME PEOPLE MIGHT USE

22 IT.

23 QUESTION: WELL, WAS THE PURPOSE OF CREATING

24 THE NEW WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER THAT YOU REFERRED

25 TO, TO OBSOLETE QUICKTIME? _________________________________________________________________

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1 ANSWER: WHATEVER FUNCTIONALITY QUICKTIME

2 HAD PREVIOUSLY WOULD BE UNAFFECTED BY ANY SUCH

3 EFFORT.

4 QUESTION: THAT REALLY WASN'T MY QUESTION,

5 MR. GATES. MAYBE I CAN STATE IT MORE CLEARLY.

6 DID MICROSOFT TRY TO CONVINCE APPLE TO TAKE

7 ACTIONS WHICH WOULD HAVE RESULTED IN APPLE NO

8 LONGER DISTRIBUTING QUICKTIME TO PEOPLE TO WHOM

9 MICROSOFT WAS DISTRIBUTING NETSHOW OR A SUCCESSOR

10 MICROSOFT PRODUCT?

11 ANSWER: I'M NOT AWARE OF ANYTHING THAT

12 WOULD HAVE STOPPED THEM FROM DISTRIBUTING THE

13 QUICKTIME THEY HAD, BUT IT WAS POSSIBLE WE COULD

14 COME UP WITH SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO

15 BOTH COMPANIES IN TERMS OF A PRODUCT THAT TOOK

16 SOME OF THEIR TECHNOLOGY AND OURS AND WAS BETTER

17 FOR USERS.

18 QUESTION: DID MICROSOFT OFFER TO HAVE APPLE

19 CONTINUE TO OFFER A MULTIMEDIA PLAYER FOR THE MAC

20 PLATFORM AND TO ASSIST APPLE IN THAT IF APPLE

21 WOULD AGREE NOT TO DISTRIBUTE THAT MULTIMEDIA

22 PLAYER FOR THE WINDOWS PLATFORM?

23 ANSWER: AS I SAID, I DON'T THINK THERE WAS

24 ANY DISCUSSIONS ABOUT NOT DISTRIBUTING SOME OLD

25 THING, BUT, RATHER, A QUESTION WAS COULD _________________________________________________________________

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1 SOMETHING NEW BE CREATED WHICH WOULD BE BETTER

2 FOR BOTH COMPANIES.

3 QUESTION: WAS THE IDEA THAT ONCE THIS NEW

4 THING WAS CREATED, THE OLD THING THAT APPLE WAS

5 DISTRIBUTING WOULD NO LONGER BE DISTRIBUTED BY

6 APPLE?

7 ANSWER: AS I SAID, I DON'T THINK THAT WAS

8 PART OF THE DISCUSSION.

9 QUESTION: HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TOLD ANYTHING,

10 OR HAVE YOU READ ANYTHING, ABOUT ANY CONTENTION

11 THAT APPLE MAY OR MAY NOT MAKE CONCERNING THESE

12 DISCUSSIONS?

13 ANSWER: NO."

14 (PAUSE.)

15 "QUESTION: ARE YOU AWARE OF ANY ASSERTIONS

16 BY APPLE REPRESENTATIVES THAT MICROSOFT

17 REPRESENTATIVES TRIED TO GET THEM TO AGREE TO

18 DIVIDE THE MARKET?

19 ANSWER: NO.

20 QUESTION: NO ONE HAS EVER TOLD YOU THAT?

21 ANSWER: THAT'S RIGHT.

22 QUESTION: AND YOU'VE NEVER HEARD THAT FROM

23 ANY SOURCE?

24 ANSWER: THAT'S RIGHT.

25 QUESTION: DO I TAKE IT FROM WHAT YOU SAID _________________________________________________________________

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1 YESTERDAY THAT IF, IN FACT, MICROSOFT

2 REPRESENTATIVES HAD ATTEMPTED TO GET APPLE

3 REPRESENTATIVES TO PARTICIPATE IN A MARKET

4 DIVISION, THAT WOULD BE CONTRARY TO MICROSOFT

5 POLICY?

6 MR. HEINER: OBJECTION.

7 THE WITNESS: THAT'S RIGHT.

8 BY MR. BOIES:

9 QUESTION: AND I TAKE IT THAT IF YOU FOUND

10 OUT THAT PEOPLE HAD DONE THAT CONTRARY TO

11 MICROSOFT'S POLICY, THEY WOULD BE APPROPRIATELY

12 DEALT WITH?

13 ANSWER: YES.

14 QUESTION: ARE YOU A REGULAR READER OF THE

15 WALL STREET JOURNAL?

16 ANSWER: SOME DAYS I READ THE WALL STREET

17 JOURNAL.

18 QUESTION: ARE YOU AWARE OF A WALL STREET

19 JOURNAL ARTICLE THAT DISCUSSES ASSERTIONS BY

20 APPLE CONCERNING ALLEGED EFFORTS BY MICROSOFT TO

21 GET APPLE TO AGREE TO DIVIDE MARKETS?

22 ANSWER: NO.

23 QUESTION: LET ME JUST REFER YOU TO A WALL

24 STREET JOURNAL ARTICLE OF JULY 23, 1998, ENTITLED

25 `U.S. PROBING MICROSOFT'S MULTIMEDIA ROLE.' _________________________________________________________________

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1 DOES THAT REFRESH YOUR RECOLLECTION AS TO

2 WHETHER YOU EVER SAW A--A WALL STREET JOURNAL

3 ARTICLE ABOUT ALLEGED MARKET DIVISION ATTEMPTS

4 BETWEEN MICROSOFT AND APPLE?

5 MR. HEINER: DO YOU WANT TO SHOW US THE

6 ARTICLE?

7 MR. BOIES: I HAVE NO OBJECTION TO SHOWING

8 IT. AND I HAVE NO OBJECTION TO MARKING IT.

9 MR. HEINER: I DON'T CARE IF IT'S MARKED OR

10 NOT.

11 MR. BOIES: MY PURPOSE IS JUST TO TRY TO

12 REFRESH HIS RECOLLECTION TO SEE WHETHER HE

13 RECALLS HAVING EVER SEEN THIS.

14 THE WITNESS: NO."

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