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Who else produces mainframes???????? What is the market share of the
competition /IBM???????? There is your answer.
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IBM's competitors essentially handed a monopoly to IBM when they
announced decisions NOT to implement a 64-bit architecture. So if it is
a monopoly, it's not by IBM's malicious actions.
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Please tell me what you consider to be malicious actions.
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I do NOT consider new features/innovations to be malicious action. Any
more that I'd consider a rear-view TV camera in my new car to be a
"malicious action". If the maker of one car chooses to offer this option
and the others don't, then that's their tough luck.
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Would suing a company and then buying them out to keep from losing the
case meet your definition?
Would refusing to license your software on machines other than what you
produce go toward malicious actions?
Would refusing to license your software for running on a competitor's
machine, when just a few months earlier you were doing that?
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Let's remember that z/OS nowadays requires a 64-bit-capable machine. If
you don't have the capability, then the license is useless.
Suing and then buying out is a not-uncommon business practice. What do
the stockholders have to say about the practice? Without more
information, I won't presume to pass judgement on that sort of thing.
Rick
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