When a key Microsoft rival wanted to stave off the impending antitrust settlement with the government, he reached out for a White House technology adviser and a fund-raiser for Attorney General John Ashcroft. Nothing ever came of the attempt by technology executive James Barksdale and the settlement went through.
In a sworn deposition, Barksdale, who once headed the company that produced the Netscape Web browser, described how he tried to reach Ashcroft by contacting E. Floyd Kvamme, director of President Bush's Office of Science and Technology late last year.
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