you know better than to ping me here Golden DoDo
But anyway, I suppose that if IBM made the Russians pay for the code, you wouldn't have a problem would you?
Oh well, at least Bill Gates is cooperating with the ChiComs right?
I know, I created an entire thread about this one time too. But IBM has ~ the same number of employees in China that Microsoft does worldwide, not to mention just sold them the entire PC division to them, instantly making the Chinese government one of the top three manufacturers in the world. China and Russia (and Iran, Cuba, Vietnam, etc) are all using open source as well, not U.S. products like Apple and Microsoft, since they are getting that for free.
We're seeing two distinct lines forming, between U.S. "protectorates" Apple, Microsoft, and Intel, verses "internationalists" IBM, Sun and AMD. Just like free trade, there's a significant split in philosophy, and future vision of America.