For questioning technology transfers between countries, at a time of war?
I guess perhaps that you find it somehow un-American for an American company to provide development tools to people, the world over
For free? Yeah, that is a little un-American.
As a stockholder I wouldn't be pleased.
IBM stockholders know what's best for the USA? Then why aren't most of their employees on our soil?
And like I said; those tools are free for even you and your lowly windoze box. You can Download it and see for yourself.
Go ahead and give it a try. You too can add a new skill set to your resume by learning to code and administer for DB2, and then you can get a real job and stop kissing Mr. Gates behind.
There was an old adage "What's good for GM is good for the country" and GM had a HUGE number of employees overseas (including Opel in Germany and Vauxhall in Britain).