[Golden Eagle]

When IBM gives *code* away, as in, actual implementation, well, that's not a big deal.

That may be your opinion, and possibly an educated one at that, but I simply do not agree. China has cracked the top 10 in supercomputers in the world recently, thanks to specific donations to linux made by IBM. Now that they have the code, and the current pledge of these select vendors to keep providing it, there's ultimately no reason for the Chicoms, Vietcongs, etc. to return any favors. Do they ever?

[Codename - Ron Benjamin]

Yeah - but they could have written the code themselves based just on a technical sheet by IBM. The actual implementation wouldn't take longer than a week, including moderate testing. Given how many labor slaves employees the chinese - vietnamese party dictatorships have implementation would be peanuts for the code monkeys. I understand your bitterness, but keeping some things secret would harm us more than it would do to them.