Mark Post wrote:
IBM has not been subject to any Consent Decrees for (probably) decades.
Decades??? Don't you work for IBM??? Don't all IBM employees know this history?
The provisions of the consent decree were lifted in stages, over a five-year period, from 1996 through 2001. http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/public/press_releases/1996/0715.htm.
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