[Golden Eagle]

Bill Gates is cooperating with the ChiComs

I know, I created an entire thread about this one time too. But IBM has ~ the same number of employees in China that Microsoft does worldwide, not to mention just sold them the entire PC division to them, instantly making the Chinese government one of the top three manufacturers in the world. China and Russia (and Iran, Cuba, Vietnam, etc) are all using open source as well, not U.S. products like Apple and Microsoft, since they are getting that for free.

We're seeing two distinct lines forming, between U.S. "protectorates" Apple, Microsoft, and Intel, verses "internationalists" IBM, Sun and AMD. Just like free trade, there's a significant split in philosophy, and future vision of America.

[AFreeBird]

We're seeing two distinct lines forming, between U.S. "protectorates" Apple, Microsoft, and Intel, verses "internationalists" IBM, Sun and AMD.

Huh?

You mean to tell me that Apple, Mirco$oft and INtel ONLY sell to and manufacture here in the US?

Funny, I seem to recall reading about a big fab plant Intel was building over in China. And Bill Gates gave them the source for Windoze. And I'm sure Apple has chicom made hardware in their machines.

Try again.

[rzeznikj at stout]

Apparently, the only things that qualify Apple, Intel, and Microsoft as being good in your book is that they are not open -source and as market competititors to Linux and commercial Unix. Likewise, IBM, AMD, and Sun are bad because they invest in the OSS movement.

What if Apple and Intel invested in OSS? Would that make them bad too? In Your Opinion, of course it would--because OSS is evil.

Isn't that a very biased generalization--almost like the Orwellian "four legs good, two legs bad" from Animal Farm?