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A brutal, ruthless monopolist resorts to hardball tactics, including lawsuits, license revocations, and finally its multibillion-dollar acquisition power to kill off upstart rivals. Nope, it's not Microsoft. Great piece by Ashlee Vance in today's NY Times about IBM killing off threats to its incredibly lucrative mainframe monopoly. Will be interesting to see how IBM responds. In the past they've often just gone dark on publications that run critical articles. That's one reason you don't...