IBM and Microsoft: Antitrust then and now https://www.cnet.com/news/ibm-and-microsoft-antitrust-then-and-now/ The first half of the article deals with the IBM antitrust lawsuit that started in 1969 and lasted for 13 years. It helped set the stage for MSFT. Since IBM was afraid of being the target of the justice department again.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Sunday, October 11, 2020, 7:53 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 15:50:14 +0000, Bill Johnson wrote: >They were forced out in a lawsuit first filed in 1969 that the government/IBM >settled in early 80’s. I’m not referring to them selling their PC business to >Lenovo. Read up. It set up MSFT to dominate the PC software market. IBM and >Microsoft: Antitrust then and now > Cite? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
