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Like the IBM forever-lawsuit. > The Department of Justice began its antitrust case against IBM on January 17, 1969. The DOJ sued under the Sherman Antitrust Ac
by jauntywundrkind 2y ago
Like the IBM forever-lawsuit.
> The Department of Justice began its antitrust case against IBM on January 17, 1969. The DOJ sued under the Sherman Antitrust Act, claiming IBM tried to monopolize the market for "general-purpose digital computers." The case lasted almost thirteen years, ending on January 8, 1982 when Assistant Attorney General William Baxter declared the case to be "without merit" and dropped the charges.
> The case lasted so long, and expanded in scope so much, that by the time the trial began, “more than half of the practices the government raised as antitrust violations were related to products that did not exist in 1969."
https://truthonthemarket.com/2020/02/03/the-ghosts-of-antitrust-past-part-2-ibm/ https://truthonthemarket.com/2020/02/03/the-ghosts-of-antitr...
It's embarrassing that law/courts are utterly unable to do anything at all to large businesses behaviors. They are so slow in matters of consequence as to be useless.
- Our_Benefactors 2y agoCounterpoint, maybe it really was meritless?
- bediger4000 2y agoMy thought is no. IBM was worse and more aggressive than Microsoft back in the day.
- Our_Benefactors 2y agoAnd yet they still lost their place on the top of the pile without any government intervention. Free market in action!
- ohSidfried 2y ago[dead]