[svlug] Our honorable leaders....

[J C Lawrence]

On Fri, 20 Nov 1998 16:31:58 -0800 
Gies, Dennis<dennis.gies at intel.com> wrote:

>> > At other points, Gates has claimed he doesn't know what his >
>> interrogators mean when they use terms such as "concerned," "ask"
>> > and "non-Microsoft browser."
>> 
>> Of course not.  Those are general terms, subject to
>> interpretation, and he can simply, and likely quite honestly,
>> claim that while he has a good idea what he meant _AT_THAT_TIME_
>> he now cannot proclaim with absolute certainty and correctness as
>> to what his intention or meaning was back then.  And of course,
>> he's not going to volunteer that extra information.  Instead, he
>> answers that, no, he doesn't know what he meant back then,
>> artfully dodging the less nit picky and literal interpretation of
>> the question that would help his interegators and possibly open
>> new avenues of investigation.

> Are you honestly trying to tell me that "non-Microsoft browser" is
> subject to interpretation?  

Not necessarily.  I'm saying that Gates is working very hard to
figure out a way of non-answering every single question as phrased.
I'm not saying that he's not also weasiling out of questions which
have no ambiguity, just that he workling really hard at that.

> Let's say I pull out a knife, with someones blood on one end and
> your fingerprints on the other:

> "Did you kill Bill Gates?"

> "I don't know." (You remember stabbing some guy while he was
> sleeping, who was in the same location that Bill was found stabbed
> to death, but couldn't quite make out his face because he was
> under the covers.)

> Does that make sense to you? (legally, or otherwise).  

Actually, in the case of a deposition, sadly, yes.  In real life
(which of course bears no realtion to a deposition), no.

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