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Well, the technology is development tools. This of course builds a quantity of people who like and use those tools and get hired by companies who will make use of those tools and skilled people, to buy the products and services of a US company, which results in income to said US company, and taxes paid on that income and dividends paid to many a US shareholder (who in turn pay taxes on those dividends -sigh), and pension funds et al.

And like I said; those tools are free for even you and your lowly windoze box. You can Download it and see for yourself.

Go ahead and give it a try. You too can add a new skill set to your resume by learning to code and administer for DB2, and then you can get a real job and stop kissing Mr. Gates behind.

This of course builds a quantity of people who like and use those tools and get hired by companies who will make use of those tools and skilled people, to buy the products and services of a US company, which results in income to said US company, and taxes paid on that income and dividends paid to many a US shareholder (who in turn pay taxes on those dividends -sigh), and pension funds et al.

Sounds nice, but how does ANY of that happen when you give your product away for free? Perpetually?