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IP: Liars, cheats and incompetents
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 11:32:00 -0500
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 08:14:03 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Gillmor <dgillmor () sjmercury com> To: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu> Subject: http://www.sjmercury.com/columnists/gillmor/docs/dg102598.htm Liars, cheats and incompetents don't fill the executive offices at technology companies. The American public may believe otherwise before long, in part because of the nature of today's legal system. In just the first week of the Microsoft antitrust trial in Washington, government lawyers strongly implied Bill Gates is a perjurer, contrasting his memory lapses during a deposition with evidence that he was up to his eyeballs in the events he denied remembering. Then Microsoft offered evidence of off-the-wall statements by Netscape Communications Corp.'s co-founder and board chairman, Jim Clark, -- and Jim Barksdale, Netscape's chief executive, found himself calling Clark a salesman so that he wouldn't have to call him a liar.
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