Avadis Tevanian, was asked if he could really state that Redmond had a monopoly in the PC operating systems market. He replied, it seems so obvious that that would be the case.
During a long exchange between the witness and counsel, Tevanian got a chance to eulogize the Apple iMac saying, it’s not beige like most computers…it’s a real nice machine. Theodore Edelman, dropping the terrier-like line of questioning he had been engaged in, asked, bonsai blue, right? Bondi blue Tevanian gently corrected him.
Talking about the Microsoft/Apple agreement, Tevanian was asked why he had stated publicly that it was a good thing at the time. Edelman asked, do you have one set of statements for the public, one set of statements for yourself? To which Tevanian replied, when I’m doing marketing, I do.
Linux was brought up again by Microsoft counsel as proof that Redmond has competition in the OS field. Tevanian said that he did not believe the former hobbyist system would do anything to damage the Windows monopoly. Outside the courthouse, ComputerWire asked Mark Murray, Microsoft spokesman, if he felt that using Linux as an example of a competing OS was comparing like with like, given that Microsoft’s supposed monopoly is in the PC desktop market. He replied that Linux showed that companies – such as Red Hat – could still compete in the operating systems market.
At the end of a Microsoft slide show showing the simple procedure of installing a different default browser on the Apple Macintosh, Judge Jackson broke in, saying that, It doesn’t tell me how to do it.
