Media-wise, the trial has it all -- an unphotogenic villain (that would be Bill Gates), a plucky underdog (Netscape), blurry videotape and money, money, money -- but the nitty-gritty details of the proceedings have often proved difficult to follow, hanging as they do on arcane points of antitrust law, which in turn hang on evidence that consists of half-forgotten meetings, technical jargon and repudiated e-mails. There have been some dramatic twists and turns along the way, notably AOL's surprise purchase of Netscape and its alliance with Sun Microsystems, three companies represented by key witnesses for the government. And how could we forget that internal e-mail from Netscape describing its browser as "faster than a dog with no legs, if the dog's up to his waist in treacle. And dead." But even if the trial goes nowhere -- as a similar action against IBM did in the '80s -- no one will ever look at Gates and his gang quite the same way again.