Roedy Green wrote: > 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. And opened the door for Microsoft. DS -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list