[Golden Eagle]

Just a few years ago, IBM was fined for selling computer technology to Russia. Now I guess it's OK to just give them technology for free.

[Red Badger]

That's not the only thing that you get in trouble for selling instead of giving it away........

[Abathar]

Let their hackers have even more access to help them rip us off.

[Golden Eagle]

Maybe someone from the "open source ping list" can explain how this helps America and Americans? This IS your mechanism working as good as you could possibly hope, correct?

[isthisnickcool]

If people would not pick at scabs they would not have open sores.

Oh, you meant open source?

[N3WBI3]

yea that would be like ms selling the red chinese a peek at their code

[AFreeBird]

What a putz.

Those same tools are available for people here in the US as well. Even YOU can download (for free - as in beer) DB2 Express for your own use. The only limits are: up to 2 dual core processors and 4GB of RAM. Otherwise you can service as large, and as many a database(s), and any number of users that the hardware limitations can reasonably accomodate.

I guess perhaps that you find it somehow un-American for an American company to provide development tools to people, the world over, to learn to develop applications for their products and services.

Oh, and last time I checked; IBM has customers the world over. Perhaps they should shun the rest of the world and just concentrate on the US. Would that satisfy you?

As a stockholder I wouldn't be pleased.

[poinq]

This is open source stuff. That means IBM doesn't actually own it. It also means the Russians could pull it down themselves anyway. This is IBM training them to write IBM add-ons for free. Not a big deal.