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The 2019 documentary "Inside Bill's Brain" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCv29JKmHNY) definitely focused a part on how Bill still hates talking about this deposition.

He makes it very clear in that documentary how much he regrets that he wore his disdain for the antitrust suit on his sleeve, as it played directly into the prosecutor's hands.

⬐ klyrs

Ah yes, the classic "I'm sorry I got caught." That's my 3yo's go-to when he's in trouble

⬐ quelsolaar

I was so disappointed with that documentary. 3 hours, with\ bill, and no real questions about the antitrust stuff, or about Microsoft stance on Linux and open source, His relationship with Apple and Steve jobs, His relationship with Paul Allen and Steve Balmer, the birth of X-Box, the war against Lotus123, and Word Perfect, the original deal with IBM, and the failed tablets, WinFS, Microsoft Bob, and loads of other things that would be interesting to get his take on.

⬐ bananamerica

That was really not the focus of the doc. As the title implies, they wanted to take a peek in the interesting ideas going on in his mind right now.

⬐ quelsolaar

I was hoping we we would find more "Inside bill's brain", then just toilets.

⬐ aaron695

Toilets are a fucking big problem.

Toilets are one of the reason why we left a past of disease and death from sewage contamination.

Yet open defecation is a problem in so much of the world.

So this is exactly what I wanted to see how he deals with. A hard problem that is so vital. How does his brain tackle that. Especially how it's unlikely a computer problem

But they did totally miss the mark on talking about it, it was what I wanted exactly to see and was disappointed it was so disappointing.

Maybe we couldn't tackle it. But I have seen other specials where he had made a unique start on the problem.

⬐ quelsolaar

If I got to spend days interviewing Bill, I would love to here about his projects to build toilets, and eradicate decises, but I would find the time to ask other questions too.

My feeling was that the documentarian got to make the documentary on the condition of not asking the hard questions about Bills past.

⬐ xdavidliu

or standing on-stage with a literal jar of shit [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9nRsJinHhM

⬐ mturmon

But to mock toilets in the way you have just done is to miss the point.

Billg is such a nerd problem solver (and I mean this in the most positive way) that he’s capable of investing and marshaling huge engineering focus on this outcast subject, just because he sees it as the crux of the actual problem.

He’s not thinking about Linux any more, he has moved on, there’s something more important to him, and that’s why he was willing to help make this particular documentary, right?

Looks like aspects of it might be mentioned https://youtu.be/aCv29JKmHNY?t=45