“Microsoft forcefully denied a published report late Thursday
that billionaire chairman Bill Gates offered a key concession to
settle his company’s historic antitrust trial, the Associated Press
reported.”
“A Microsoft (MSFT) spokesman, Jim Cullinan, vigorously denied
the report [that Gates said Microsoft would consider open sourcing
Windows code as part of an antitrust settlement]. Gates has
previously rejected any suggestion that Microsoft share the
so-called source code to its flagship product, which has earned the
company billions of dollars.”
‘We’ve talked to Bill, and Bill said he never said
that,’ Cullinan said. ‘That issue is not even related to this
case. All he said was, we would try to do our best to settle
this case.’ “