Thanks, that's what I thought. Unfortunately some posters are so obsessed with Microsoft they try to change the subject whenever the dangers of these givaways by IBM and others to foreign countries are discussed. If Microsoft suddenly gave all their software to the world for free, they'd suddenly love them, since that's obviously their ultimate motivation.
They are just granting access to other countries, is all.
They are not giving away hardware...they are granting access to a bunch of legacy code, most of it not written by IBM.
For instance, I wrote some of that code while in HS, and my mother wrote a bunch more of it.