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There's also Sun, who open-sourced StarOffice in 2000.

That's where the ambiguity of "major computer company" comes in. Probably the same with IBM. They are probably implying "major personal computer company" but couldn't say "major PC company" because PC = Windows.

Remember the good old days when IBM made PCs? :P

Apple used to call their computers personal computers: https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1979-08/1979_08_BYT...

It's funny how IBM was able to hijack the term.

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