These companies are just jealous, Gates said. They're supposed to be agitated. In the trial itself, Gates didn't help his own case much. The government repeatedly ran clips from a videotaped deposition that showed him to be evasive and even arrogant. No witness controls a deposition, no matter how rich, no matter how powerful.
Every witness has to sit there and answer questions.
The government was taking cheap shots, Gates said. I didn't go in there and berate him. It has been a tough year for Gates. His company is under siege, and his image has taken a pounding. This may be part of the reason he agreed to speak so extensively with Rose.