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Re:Antitrust Troubles Snowball for Tech Giants as Lawmakers ... by WalterBright on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @12:15AM (#20091836)
> was really the only possibility that IBM had while still holding to those earlier legal restrictions on bundling, tying, and license restriction.

How does that fit in with the IBM PS/2 design, which was carefully closed?

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Re:Antitrust Troubles Snowball for Tech Giants as Lawmakers ... by jhayward on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @12:31AM (#20091905)
The PS2 was released in 1987, 5 years after the US antitrust suit against IBM ended, and after IBM no longer had a monopoly position in the PC market.

It was a different era and the horses had left the barn. The PS/2 was a dead end. The original PC architecture, openly evolved, is still generating hundreds of billions in revenue each year - just not for IBM.

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Re:Antitrust Troubles Snowball for Tech Giants as Lawmakers ... by WalterBright on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @04:47PM (#20099061)
I'm still interested in a reference that says the IBM PC being open was a result of anti-trust.
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