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I can't help but think of the irony of mentioning IBM in your comparison to Microsoft considering Microsoft indirectly bankrolled, via BayStar, the SCO lawsuit

• Fnoord 9y ago
  Yeah, that's irony. There's more. A former monopolist getting flak from a current monopolist who tricked IBM with MS-DOS [1]. If you want to be pedantic on the history of Microsoft, however, I'd like to remind you of the history of IBM [2]. Of particular relevance are the parts "IBM in Germany and Nazi Occupied Europe" and "1969: Antitrust, the Unbundling of software and services". Do we still (respectively ~75 and ~50 years later) hold this against IBM? No, we don't. Its longer ago than Microsoft's practices, so I understand people still hold a grudge (heck, I'm one of them, I still tend to avoid Microsoft products). It'll take some time. But that doesn't mean my grudge is still rational. [1] http://thisdayintechhistory.com/11/06/ibm-signs-a-deal-with-the-devil/ http://thisdayintechhistory.com/11/06/ibm-signs-a-deal-with-... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM