The bulk of the eight-hour epic is said to deal with Gatess role in that vital June 1995 meeting with Netscape, when he allegedly made an illegal offer that the two companies divide up the browser market between them. The government scored some success in its opening arguments Monday by showing relatively minute scraps of Gatess testimony to be entirely at odds with memos he wrote at the time; evidently, we can expect a more detailed recounting next week. For Microsoft, of course, this is all an attempt to "demonize" its "innovative and visionary" boss man. But for the rapidly dwindling and highly disillusioned audience at the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse, it seems more like a good excuse to stay home - and catch it all on cable.