Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 16th Dec 2006 23:39 UTC, submitted by John Mills
"If you could ask Bill Gates one question, what would you ask? I spent an hour today with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on the company's Redmond campus. I chose to ask Bill about Microsoft's intellectual property stance against Linux and its open source developers, from the SCO Group's litigation against IBM to Steve Ballmer's recent claim Linux infringes on Microsoft patents after signing a patent indemnity with Novell."
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Member since:2005-07-13
Could Bill be telling the truth?
In a pre-Sarbox world, maybe. But Sarbanes no longer affords corporate officers, including chairmen, the luxury of plausible deniability.
Given all the press that was surrounding it, it's really hard to believe he can say he doesn't know.
More likely, given the fact that Novell subpoenaed the correspondence between MS - Baystar - SCO and given the recent MS - Novell deal (which some cynical among us may believe is related to the previous point), he's probably just being smart and staying quiet to avoid saying anything that can be misconstrued or otherwise used against them.
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2005-07-24
Agreed. Whatever MS's position may or may not have been WRT the SCO deals and suits, it is *very* hard to believe that he would not be aware of:
1. Baystar Capital
2. SCO's general situation
Then again, during his deposition during the DOJ case, he claimed he didn't know what a browser was.
I have to wonder, though. Way back during the Iran-Contra scandal, president Reagan claimed to know nothing of the activities. I thought he was lying through his teeth at the time. But then a few years later, after the fact of his Alzheimers disease had been revealed, and after reflecting upon the rumors of his mental infirmity in the last years of his presidency, I realized that he might actually have been telling the truth. A scary thing to consider about the man who had control of the "Red Button".
Could Bill be telling the truth?
(Hey, NotParker's not the only one who can promote memes.) ;-)
Edited 2006-12-17 02:04