Microsoft Hatred FAQ

Roedy Green my_email_is_posted_on_my_website at munged.invalid
Wed Oct 26 20:21:07 EDT 2005


On 26 Oct 2005 18:05:45 +0200, Tor Iver Wilhelmsen
<jadedgamer at hotmail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

>> IBM seems to have had a history of squeezing out competition in the 
>> same way Microsoft has, if I recall correctly.
>
>... and were told not to by a court. Which is the whole reason for the
>existence of IBM clones, whether PCs or mainframes.

Back in the early days, IBM was just as bad as MS. Competition and
some smackdown by the DOJ, have made them much better behaved.


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