By Sarah Left, 8 June 1999 17:35
NEWS Bill Gates has denied that Microsoft attempted to crush competition from a small Connecticut software firm, Bristol Technology, by raising the price of Windows source code. In videotaped testimony played in court yesterday, Gates described his company's dealings with Bristol as "more than fair", according to US reports. Bristol has filed a suit against the software giant for alleged anti-competitive practices, stating that its Windows/Unix interface product is threatened by the terms of Microsoft's licensing agreement. The trial began last week. Bristol claims that when its contract came up for renewal in 1997, Microsoft upped the costs for licensing its source code to an unacceptable level. Microsoft argues that a Bristol competitor, Mainsoft, accepted that same licensing agreement.
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