[SecondAmendment]

>Diverting corporate resources is quite another

You mean something like this ?
http://www.microsoft.com/environment

[the invisib1e hand]

that looks like mere marketing to me. "Cloud" is the buzzword these days, as (predictably) a perverse vertical integration in data dictatorship takes place.

I'm sure AMD wouldn't have lifted a finger to do what they're doing if the obama administration didn't make it worth their whiles, at the taxpayers' expense, of course.