[Cobra64]

Aside from a free-market approach, I see this as a national security issue. Big Blue has a lot of involvement with Uncle. Further a lot of Blue's R&D and development will be handed off to other countries. I am totally against this.

Just so I don't get flamed, I've worked on several IBM projects, including IBM Federal in DC. Though I cannot stand government intrusion in the private sector, I believe that Uncle should have a conversation with the wigs in Armonk.

[Golden Eagle]

I see this as a national security issue.

Thanks, so do I. IBM has been giving lots of software away to everyone lately, but to make it exclusively available to foreign lands is highly questionable. Thanks to Bill Clinton, who IBM management absolutely loved, there is little to no export control over anything software related, and these foreign goverments can use some of this new software to build "supercomputers" from clusters of cheap PC's these days. Speaking of which, IBM sold their PC division to the Chinese government earlier this year, for 1/10 of its yearly gross. Hopefully at some point these givaways will be stopped.

[Prime Choice]

I see this as a national security issue. Big Blue has a lot of involvement with Uncle.

Microsoft gave the source code for their Windows OS to the Chinese. You think government should stop doing business with Redmond now?