On 26 Oct 2005 18:05:45 +0200, Tor Iver Wilhelmsen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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