So the DoJ is after the Nazgul again and in the comment thread someone mentioned that IBM was left alone last time because they agreed to license their technology to all comers under RAND terms.
I’m a real sucker for scenarios that strictly obey the letter of the law while perverting its meaning.
How much stuff can a company require its would-be competition to license before it’s no longer Reasonable? It seems that IBM owns the hardware specification and can make the software rely on whatever obscure, under-documented, and, above all, patented aspects of the hardware it wants it to. Can IBM force the competition into insolvency through endless rounds of forced licensing deals?