Free Knowledge Culture Calendar/January 17

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Bundling of software and hardware by industry giant IBM lead to an antitrust suit.
Bundling of software and hardware by industry giant IBM lead to an antitrust suit.

Today in 1969 the U.S. government filed an antitrust lawsuit against the anticompetitive bundling of software with hardware sales by IBM. Although the case was eventually withdrawn in 1982, IBM unbundled software in June.


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