What, you think I'm happy about this? I think it sucks, but Bill Gates is late to the China party, companies like IBM were kissing up to them long ago.
"Gerstner and Jiang 'Old Friends' Kiss in New York - 11/02/97"
http://www.truthinmedia.org/TruthinMedia/Bulletins/tim98-1-5.html
NEW YORK - "Birds of a feather flock together," goes an old saw. They do. Even in the maze of Manhattan skyscrapers where only the stupid birds fly.
Lou Gerstner, IBM's chairman, who once slept in Mao Zedong's bed in Shanghai, warmly embraced Jiang Zemin, Mao's protégé, outside the IBM Tower on Madison Avenue in New York. Jiang's visit to IBM was his first stop after breakfasting with George Bush and opening the trading at the New York Stock Exchange on Oct. 31.
Gerstner warmly greeted the Chinese communist with Tiananmen Square blood on his hands as an old friend. "Lao pengyou, ni hao" ("Old friend, how are you?"), Gerstner said in heavily-accented Chinese, to the satisfied chuckles all around. A REUTER's photo in WASHINGTON POST (Nov. 1) showed Jiang and Gerstner laughing heartily underneath a big IBM logo. (Big Blue's next ad?).
It's pretty obvious, after reading all the sorts of garbage posted on Linux threads. After all, as long as MS is making $$$$$ in Red China, to heck with anything else
I think it sucks,
Bull. You've even said countless times over the last umpteenth months that Linux in other nations' hands is evil because it's free.
But continue, O master troll...
"Gerstner and Jiang 'Old Friends' Kiss in New York - 11/02/97" ...
What your article fails to mention is that IBM has done business in China (and other locales around the world) since the early 1900's--since before Mao; and that they (IBM) currently have engineers and consultants in over 170 countries.
In fact, IBM is one of only a handful of American companies that can continuously trace their history back into the 19th century--(the other one I can think of offhand being Union Pacific).
What is the basis for the troll's hatred of IBM? Could it be that it once worked for the company and was fired for being a troll? How's your discrimination suit going troll?
No but Im pretty damn sure if this was an article about Linux and Hu sitting down to dinner it would not take you hours and a ping to show your face..
Well, you are Microsoft's greatest cheerleader, and have stated multiple times that it's okay for China to get technology as long as they pay for it.
Bill Gates is late to the China party, companies like IBM were kissing up to them long ago.
Along with Cisco, Sun, Oracle, HP, Dell, etc. They all have to pander to the Chicoms in order to gain access to the market with its massive potential sales.