[Golden Eagle]

So you see no value in selling items, verses giving them away? You also don't see them as any sort of barrier to prevent rogue or despot regimes from accessing technology?

Microsoft has never been fined for violating export control, nor are they making new announcments about free technology for Russia. Remember in the past IBM has been fined for illegal exports of technology, yet today they are releasing PR items that that are outright giddy.

IBM Delivers Free Software and Technical Resources to Russia

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/19197.wss

To Russia From IBM: A Hand With Open Source Development

http://www.techweb.com/headlines_week/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=178601922

[N3WBI3]

So you see no value in selling items, verses giving them away?

No... try again; what I said was if its wrong to give something to someone its wrong to sell it to them and vice-versa.