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Buffett and Gates: Keeping America Great

Quiz: Warren Buffett & Bill Gates: The Billionaire BFFs

Question 4 of 13

In the United States v. Microsoft antitrust case, Bill Gates was famously combative in his responses to which attorney?

  1. David Boies
  2. Gloria Allred
  3. Johnny Cochran
  4. William Kunstler
Correct!

While being cross-examined by attorney David Boies in the 1998 case, Gates pulled out all the stops in his efforts to be as unhelpful as possible, going so far as to quarrel with Boies over the meaning of the word "we" and giving the statement "I don't recall" so often that even the judge was seen laughing at the sheer chutzpah of the defendant. Despite the levity, the judge ruled against Microsoft and found that the company had violated the Sherman Antitrust Act.

SOURCE: Gates Deposition Makes Judge Laugh in Court | CNN.com

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