IBM sells mainframes against compatible hardware from other vendors; it makes a proprietary OS for their hardware.
APPLE sell a proprietary HARDWARE and a proprietary OS. No clones allowed.
What law says that IBM has to make SOFTWARE for to run on NON-IBM hardware. The competitors cloned the HARDWARE, let them CLONE the software.
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