from SLATE:>A week and a half into the Microsoft trial and a paper has finally done a piece on the oddity of Bill Gates not testifying in person. Even though he is the personification of the company, an inside WP story observes that defense lawyers might have viewed him as so "prickly and combustible" as to undermine his own case. The paper quotes one lawyer who once questioned the world's richest man live: "At one point he just started screaming, saying that what the [FTC] staff was doing to his company was socialistic....[T]hen he got angrier and called it communistic." < Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://clawww.lmu.edu/Departments/ECON/jdevine.html
