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The 1998 Bill Gates Deposition Video -- It's Baaack! |
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Thursday, February 01 2007 @ 05:45 PM EST
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First, the good news: Remember how hard we looked for the video of Microsoft CEO Bill Gates' 1998 deposition testimony in the Justice Department's litigation against Microsoft? It seemed to have completely disappeared from the Internet as far as we could determine. There are text transcripts available, but not the complete video. It's back.
There is a redesigned
Comes v. Microsoft website, and a big change is that video testimony and exhibits will also now be made available, beginning with the Gates video. It's in the public record now, so it can never disappear again. Now for the bad news: the video is only in Windows Media format (wmv). Sigh. Update: When the case was settled, the iowaconsumercase.com website was taken down. Consequently we placed our copy of all the videos here.
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Authored by: tce on Thursday, February 01 2007 @ 05:50 PM EST |
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Authored by: tce on Thursday, February 01 2007 @ 05:52 PM EST |
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Authored by: tce on Thursday, February 01 2007 @ 05:53 PM EST |
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Authored by: Evita_Ercnu on Thursday, February 01 2007 @ 05:58 PM EST |
Isn't there a tool to convert between video formats? Or would that infringe
upon too many patents?
IANAN - I am not a newbie - but I play one on IP
Evita[ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: oo on Thursday, February 01 2007 @ 06:09 PM EST |
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 01 2007 @ 06:57 PM EST |
It's so bad it's funny. Hardly the switch-on inspiring leader of the biggest
software company in the world.
He's a terrible liar too. I wonder if there's anything he's said that isn't a
lie (i'm not sure how much of this I can stand however).
Oddly enough, the office's MS evangaliser just sees the lawyers as asking silly
questions that make no sense e.g. 'he's using a consumer dictionary, how silly
is that'. Sigh.
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Authored by: inode_buddha on Thursday, February 01 2007 @ 07:05 PM EST |
Actually, PJ, it's not that hard to convert to other media formats such as mpeg.
Maybe I'll play around with that a bit later, say as tonight's cron job.
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we are referring to freedom, not price"
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 01 2007 @ 07:18 PM EST |
Didn't this come up before where dos was refered to as
integral to windows?, now Bill confirms in first clip that
msdos was a standalone product.[ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 01 2007 @ 07:41 PM EST |
Bill Gates' video testimony is public record.
It only exists
in Microsoft's proprietary format.
How it something so
obviously idiotic even possible??? [ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 01 2007 @ 08:18 PM EST |
In the first video, Bill Gates is asked if he believes that Microsoft is the
most respected software company (which is how the "Microsoft Computer
Dictionary" describes the company). He waffles around the question instead of
giving a straight forward "yes" or "no" answer and has to be questioned
repeatedly on this point. I guess he is under no illusions as to what people
think about him and his company.
P.S. I had no problems looking at the
first video with Mandriva 2007 x86-64. Firefox launched Totem player to view the
video. I only watched a bit, because I'm not really that interested in what he
has to say. [ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: SirHumphrey on Thursday, February 01 2007 @ 08:56 PM EST |
"February 8-9,
2007
http://www.msreadiness.com/IL_abstract.asp?eid=5014800
Target
Audience:
Business Decision Makers from SCO-based solution providers in the
US.
SCO solution providers can ........ transition from SCO UNIX to Windows
Server
What Microsoft and DTR will do to help you make the move
from SCO UNIX to Microsoft.
Current review of SCO in the
marketplace
Comparing options and impact on your customers
Migrating
to the Windows platform
Small Business Server Deep Dive and benefits
of Microsoft Small Business Server" (it doesn't say if MIT will be in
attendance)
And finally.........................
"Day 2 ends
with an optional shuttle to the Microsoft Company Store."
Sounds like
the Vista launch confirms M$ has no further need for SCO.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 01 2007 @ 09:09 PM EST |
On Bill Gates clip 1,
There is something about old sco (he does not call it that)
It is found at time index 9:48 or about 31:24 sec from the end
of the clip. (It really is not much he just says the name).
He know about Santa Cruz Operation as a 'compeating os'.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 01 2007 @ 09:58 PM EST |
It is interesting to see the question and response patterns in the deposition.
You can tell when the questions are significant because Gates will stall or try
to avoid answering the questions. I think this shows that stalling in a
deposition is not a good strategy. What you are not prepared to answer can be as
revealing as anything you actually say.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 01 2007 @ 10:14 PM EST |
This article shows just how long it takes to pick apart a proprietary formatted
video. DRM - no chance!
Tufty
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Authored by: LinuxLobbyist on Thursday, February 01 2007 @ 11:05 PM EST |
I'm a little surprised at how many people are talking about converting this to
mpeg or avi. Please, please, please, folks, if someone is going to convert it,
convert it to the only format with no known patent infringing components or that
requires non-free, binary only codecs to play (i.e.: not much better than wmv).
Use ogg theora. I'm attempting to grab them now and will convert them to ogg
theora if I can. I'll make them available via bittorrent unless someone can
offer web or ftp space.
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GPL all the way: Sell services, don't lease secrets[ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: fava on Thursday, February 01 2007 @ 11:13 PM EST |
At 47:00 of the 12th video we have the infamous exchange where Billg insisted
that he did not type something but rather the computer did.
Priceless.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 02 2007 @ 02:21 AM EST |
"Now for the bad news: the video is only in Windows Media format (wmv).
Sigh."
Now imagine a nice, juicy DRM self-destruct button, in a world were ALL devices
are DRM enabled.
Evidence: *poof*[ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: jplatt39 on Friday, February 02 2007 @ 03:32 AM EST |
:-0
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Authored by: Starlite528 on Friday, February 02 2007 @ 06:31 AM EST |
Record profits? Really? I would have never guessed....NOT!
I read one report that says Exxon made 4.5mil an hour,
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003552427_exxon02.html
I'm mad because there is no end in sight. I'm mad because I don't believe there
is any real reason for the price of gas to be so high. Do the oil company execs
have to pay for the gas that they use, assuming they drive themselves?
All I can do and what I do hope for, is that I see the worlds oil reserves
literally run out before I die. I hope they run out before it's too late to
save our environment.
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Authored by: Starlite528 on Friday, February 02 2007 @ 08:01 AM EST |
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"Linux Genuine Advantageā¢ is an exciting and mandatory new way for you to
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http://www.linuxgenuineadvantage.org
Okay I'm going to bed for real this time!
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Authored by: Stumbles on Friday, February 02 2007 @ 08:02 AM EST |
I've not watched it yet but is this the video they were caught tampering
with? Or am I thinking of some other they were caught faking.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 02 2007 @ 09:28 AM EST |
VLC can also export the stream to any format it supports, like mpeg4... [ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 02 2007 @ 10:04 AM EST |
I don't have the bandwidth, but I hope for each case of these rediscovered
"disappearances" of video or audio, someone saves them and then
uploads to torrents and/or youtube. Although youtube has been known for yanking
videos, hopefully once content is released, it can never be squashed again.
Likewise with old websites, press releases, manuals, etc. Never know when
they'll come in handy ;-)[ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: tz on Friday, February 02 2007 @ 10:17 AM EST |
the January 25th, around 10592 (a bit before) has a novell exec saying
"unbelievable, unbelievable" after reading Allicin saying that they
should insure DRDOS would have problems with Windows. Above is a confirmation
of their FUD campaign where they would find bugs and dribble out notices to the
media so as to instill fear of DRDOS. And how Sears moved to MSDOS after they
couldn't get Novell to agree to huge penalties if they weren't compatible with
Windows after contact with Microsoft.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 02 2007 @ 11:02 AM EST |
mplayer plays these wmv files. The most likely problem is that xine can not
handle the mms protocol used by the web site. If you are using gnome, the
player preference can be changed to mplayer by typing
gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/mms/command
"/usr/bin/mplayer %s"
You must be logged in as root to change your peference.[ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 02 2007 @ 02:59 PM EST |
For what it's worth, I made an Ogg file for the first of the 12 WMV streams. The
length is 53 min 21 sec, the Ogg file is 25 MB. The file includes informational
comment tags.
GATES-1998 page
Above link is my own page.
If someone else wants to host it elsewhere, that might be better. YouTube
re-encodes everything to Flash, so I can't put the Ogg file there.
The original
audio seems to have been over-processed for loudness, so it sounds distorted. If
you look at it in an editor you can see many clipped or nearly clipped peaks.
The WMV video looks to be a VHS transfer, based on the head-switching noise
visible in the bottom few scanlines. [ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 02 2007 @ 03:00 PM EST |
For what it's worth, I made an Ogg file for the first of the 12 WMV streams. The
length is 53 min 21 sec, the Ogg file is 25 MB. The file includes informational
comment tags.
GATES-1998
page
Above link is my own page. If someone else wants to host it
elsewhere, that might be better. YouTube re-encodes everything to Flash, so I
can't put the Ogg file there.
The original audio seems to have been
over-processed for loudness, so it sounds distorted. If you look at it in an
editor you can see many clipped or nearly clipped peaks. The WMV video looks to
be a VHS transfer, based on the head-switching noise visible in the bottom few
scanlines. [ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: LinuxLobbyist on Friday, February 02 2007 @ 09:11 PM EST |
Hmm, you mean it's already done? I'm just about finished downloading and
conversion is going to take a while, but if someone else has already done this,
then cool.
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GPL all the way: Sell services, don't lease secrets[ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: rexbinary on Saturday, February 03 2007 @ 12:28 AM EST |
What happened in the original antitrust trial? Why is Microsft still doing
business the same was they always have? Why is IE still intergrated into
Windows? I'd love to see a retro piece on it from Groklaw.[ Reply to This | # ]
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- What happened? - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, February 04 2007 @ 02:39 PM EST
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 03 2007 @ 10:56 PM EST |
I am half way through watching the Gates video deposition. Fascinating. I have
never seen a more thorough and professional prevaricator as Bill.
I recently re-watched the Danny Devito movie "Tin Men", about aluminum
siding salesmen. Great movie, I think Gates must have been trained as one in a
prior life.[ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: Nick Bridge on Sunday, February 04 2007 @ 11:43 AM EST |
Man isn't that just too ironic? [ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 05 2007 @ 06:20 PM EST |
http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/011107/PX_2768.pdf
If we, as a company, are
interested in promoting Windows, why
bother with AFC?[...]
Screw Sun,
cross-platform will never work. Let's move on and
steal the Java language.
That
said, have we ever taken a look at how long it would
take Microsoft to build a
cross-platform Java that did work?
Naturally, we would never do it, but it would
give us some
idea of how much time we have to work with in killing Sun's
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