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They are not buying an icon, they are buying a piece of the IBM pie. And a pretty small piece at that from recent sales data. As far as security concerns, were not talking supercomputer stealth technology here. Most of the components that go into a majority of PC's sold in this country are already built by the ChiComms. That's not to say that I agree with helping them out in any way though, just make some more valid arguments.

Although a small piece of the pie, it is the part of the pie ordinary Americans have most tangible contact with.

I mean, the word 'IBM' rings a picture of a PC first in anyone's mind, and to sell away that picture, in my opinion, is the beginning of the end for IBM.

As far as security concerns, were not talking supercomputer stealth technology here...make some more valid arguments.

Not only has the IBM PC division been turning a profit recently (see the post I just added with a link to Business Week), the Chinese are using PC's to build supercomputers, in fact they use the Linux software that has recently been strengthened by IBM's contributions to the "free" software to build a supercomputer that registered in the top 10 in the world, a Chinese first.

Chinese supercomputer headed to top ranks - Countries with supercomputing prowess such as the United States have long sought to restrict the export of high-performance calculation technology that could be used for nuclear weapons design or communications decryption. Those export laws have tripped up companies such as Sun Microsystems. But a newer approach, in which numerous low-end Linux systems are connected with a high-speed network into a high-performance computing cluster, means supercomputers can be built from widespread, ordinary technology.

Instead of criticising me for supposedly not knowing what I'm talking about, how about pulling the wool off your eyes instead?