I didn't. I'm a short-term procrastinator, much like the companies and governments I'm referring to, I find it easy to waste 50 minutes in 5-minute increments on HN, but hard to waste same 50 minutes watching a single video. ;).
But I assume you imply Gates was stuck in the same personal-benefit games. I agree with that. What makes him part of the pretty small group is that, eventually, he got out, and now seems to both be focused on helping others, and has a more global perspective.
Fair enough. It's a long video, and there's several of them.
On the upside, you don't have to watch much of the first one to get an insight into the attitude the DoJ was up against at the time. I suspect there's some recommendations on that page for summary / compilation videos of the deposition videos.
And I wasn't implying anything -- he clearly was. In subsequent testimonies he'd obviously been trained by PR types in how to not appear obstreperous, which was certainly to everyone's advantage, though it does invite the question 'which is the real Bill?'.
I've discussed elsewhere in this thread the dangers of considering current-Bill without considering how previous-Bill got him where he is.
But I assume you imply Gates was stuck in the same personal-benefit games. I agree with that. What makes him part of the pretty small group is that, eventually, he got out, and now seems to both be focused on helping others, and has a more global perspective.