Edwin Black, the author of IBM and the Holocaust

Edwin Black, the author of IBM and the Holocaust, has put forward further evidence to support his claims of IBM's knowledge and complicity in Nazi operations in wartime Poland in the paperback edition to be published in the US this week, according to a Reuters story. For younger readers: IBM had a monopoly of data processing for almost 50 years, and fought a string of anti-trust cases against the US governemt. Following a couple of unfortunate accidents (ie designing the IBM PC to use Intel processors and Microsoft's MS-DOS) it gave away a large part of its monopoly power to a couple of small upstarts; but after 20 years, it is still bigger than both put together.