Mario Semo wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

 MB> on this, among other things, and entered into a consent 
 MB> decree with the government in 1956 promising not to do it.  

 MS> i think you are aware that this decree ended end January
 MS> 1996. So, lets see what IBM is doing without this.

News may travel slowly over there. :-)  IBM asked the court to end the
decree, but the court refused and only freed certain divisions of the
company from it. The business press here feels that IBM got about 20% of
what they asked for.
 
-- Mike


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