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On July 26, 2010, the European Commission announced [1] two separate antitrust investigations into International Business Machines (IBM). Both cases were related to alleged abuse of IBM's dominant position in the mainframe market. The first case followed complaints by mainframe emulator vendors T3 Technologies and TurboHercules, later joined by ...
The case decided, at the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, that in United States law the GNU General Public License (GPL) did not contravene federal antitrust laws. Daniel Wallace, a United States citizen, sued the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for price fixing. In a later lawsuit, he unsuccessfully sued IBM, Novell, and Red Hat.
The Commission sent a letter to IBM informing it about the imminent proceedings for abusing its dominant position, under EU competition law, inviting it to put a case. IBM sought to challenge the letter in judicial review proceedings, and the question was whether the letter was a reviewable act.
European regulators launched two formal antitrust investigations into IBM (IBM) centering on its mainframe computer business, the European Commission announced Monday. One investigation focuses on ...
During the 1970s, that dominance gave birth to a lengthy antitrust lawsuit, which Ronald Reagan's justice department dismissed in 1982. Some 27 years later, Big Blue's mainframe business is in ...
Antitrust and International Trade Commission probes in the U.S. tend to focus on tech companies such as Microsoft (MSFT), Qualcomm (QCOM) and IBM (IBM), and now the Justice Department is making ...
Free from the antitrust case, IBM was present in every computer market other than supercomputers, and entered communications [176] by purchasing Rolm – the first acquisition in 18 years – and 18% of MCI. [161] The company was so important to component suppliers that it urged them to diversify.
SCO Group, Inc. v. International Business Machines Corp., commonly abbreviated as SCO v.IBM, is a civil lawsuit in the United States District Court of Utah.The SCO Group asserted that there are legal uncertainties regarding the use of the Linux operating system due to alleged violations of IBM's Unix licenses in the development of Linux code at IBM.