Not sure it is. It is bill gate not ibm that believe more onto software license. Ibm goes with hardware cum software license. They are more structured no doub

Not sure it is. It is bill gate not ibm that believe more onto software license. Ibm goes with hardware cum software license. They are more structured no doubt even then. They are very careful about this. Licensed product but they are more onto Still because they are more onto hardware and its usage their first anti trust is about tie-in sales. Hardware with monopoly of punch card purchase (I am not joking it is my professor speciality). Software wise they allow development. Even to this day mvs (that is many years into the future it is mvs) 3.8 is still can be run without license. And invention like vm also. They worry about Amdahl who basically do this s/360 and hardware compatibility (plug compatible) and even now fuji… No they no doubt has software licensing but not their focus for a long time. That is why when found bios cannot protect them, they do mca and totally missed it is software, stupid. The rest is history.