Cory Doctorow on Nostr: IBM dragged out its antitrust appeals for 12 years, from 1970 to 1982 (they called it ...
IBM dragged out its antitrust appeals for 12 years, from 1970 to 1982 (they called it "Antitrust's Vietnam"). This is an expensive gambit: IBM outspent the *entire DOJ Antitrust Division* for 12 consecutive years, hiring more lawyers to fight the DOJ than the DOJ employed to run *all* of its antitrust enforcement, nationwide. But it worked. IBM hung in there until Reagan got elected and ordered his AG to drop the case.
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