tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post5390631466736275638..comments2024-03-19T13:13:18.609+00:00Comments on The IPKat: Is there a competition law issue lurking on the horizon of cloud computing?Verónica RodrÃguez Arguijohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763207846940036921noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-40039974644652451742016-10-17T18:54:20.873+01:002016-10-17T18:54:20.873+01:00In addition to the five named members of the BUNCH...In addition to the five named members of the BUNCH, there were another two comprised in another derisive designation of "seven dwarfs": General Electric and RCA.<br /><br />Most of these no longer exist, and none are in the computer business anymore.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-63309225364541708052016-10-17T18:49:05.190+01:002016-10-17T18:49:05.190+01:00"THE" IBM anti-trust case?
I was under ..."THE" IBM anti-trust case?<br /><br />I was under the impression that there had been several anti-trust cases with IBM as a defendant, beginning in the card-processing era, but I can find only two.<br /><br />The 1969 investigation was roughly "IBM vs. The BUNCH" (A derisive acronym for referring to Burroughs - Univac - NCR - Control Data - Honeywell).<br /><br />There was also plenty of patent warfare from the 40s to the 70s between the various belligerents, in addition to MIT, Wang, and probably Ma Bell in her various incarnations, in particular in the key technology area of core memory. After the lawsuits wormed their way through courts for year on end, the lawyers eventually sat down together, and worked out a reasonable settlement with fixed-fee licenses instead of exorbitant per-core royalties. The patent system did foster a certain amount of design-around activity, thus promoting innovation, but at the same time stifled the field as a few overly broad patents proved to be blocks, so it's not entirely clear from this example whether patents are a good or a bad thing.<br /><br />I'm trying to understand from Neil's text how exactly is Amazon deemed to be abusing its dominant position. Is it through technical standards? Patents? Pricing? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com