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Why blame just one?
Our country has a long history of helping whichever country is our "friend" at any given time. One glaring example is the billions we poured into Iraq during the 1980s because it was our "ally" against Iran. When Saddam lost his usefulness, Iraq became an enemy. All of this happened under Reagan and Bush Sr.

And a lot of sensitive material being stolen was done by white-bread Americans who were in it for a buck. You can't blame the "Chi Coms" or all the others looking for information from taking advantage of someone's need for quick money.

And am I correct here? Are you blaming Linux for the proliferation of home-grown bombs? Like any other item, it is how it is used and not the item itself to blame. And when we got the technology, we shared like crazy starting in the 1950s-with Taiwan and Japan and South Korea and Israel and Jordan and Egypt and... the list goes on.

Now we are whining because the countries we shared with are outpacing us in the very technologies we helped them create. At the same time the administration wants to ban one kind of technology export, it is still pushing outsourcing like there is no tomorrow. Isn't that an export of technical IP and just as dangerous?
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Export?  Tim Patterson | 07/01/04
Re: Export  issthatso | 07/01/04
No, it's the idiots that used to sit in the White House  quietLee | 07/01/04
They don't need to steal math, models...  techboy_z | 07/01/04
They get them free  seosamh_z | 07/01/04
Not true  Dave P. | 07/01/04
Yes it is  seosamh_z | 07/01/04
Why blame just one?  AbsolutelyNot | 07/01/04
Some corrections...  Dave P. | 07/01/04
Minor quibble  rapson | 07/01/04
If Pro is the opposite of Con... NT  PA-ITGuy | 07/01/04
Stupid  Bill4 | 07/01/04
Don't learn from history, just learn to love the re-runs.  quietLee | 07/01/04
Bias  seosamh_z | 07/01/04
Nope, no bias, just cold fact  quietLee | 07/02/04
You really think the Taiwanese would sell ........Maybe they won't have to  Squawkbox | 07/01/04
news with a twist  TrustMe_z | 07/02/04
Just a guess  bidemytime | 07/01/04
biased  Dave P. | 07/01/04
Interesting, Dave  bidemytime | 07/02/04
This will just drive them to foreign competitors.  DonnieBoy | 07/01/04
Off the shelf computers were use to build...  B.O.F.H. | 07/01/04
off focus and to late!  dg mh | 07/01/04
I wonder how Free Software works with this.  Delaware Boy | 07/01/04
You missed the Microsoft memo  Robert Carnegie | 07/01/04
MS software reclassified as "toys"...  Xunil_Sierutuf | 07/01/04
Clustering  rwb1912@... | 07/01/04
(NT) Seems it would affect ALL software (Proprietary and Free).  Plain Logic | 07/01/04
With the amount of nuclear weapons out there this is a mute point  Squawkbox | 07/01/04
"Moot", the word is "moot".  Jomo_z | 07/01/04
I sit corrected, if I was standing then I would stand corrected wink  Squawkbox | 07/01/04
reading between the lines ...  whisperycat | 07/01/04
Too late  FilledOut | 07/01/04
Here was my point about 'stupid'  Bill4 | 07/01/04
Nobody is buying computer from US anyway  toomuchgreeatea@... | 07/01/04
Well, I guess the P4 has nothing to fear happy  BitTwiddler | 07/01/04
i was thinking the exact same thing.. (NT)  ryusen | 07/01/04
What about clustering  rwb1912@... | 07/01/04
Paranoia bordering on the absurd  WhoIsDaMan | 07/01/04
Bordering as measured with what subatomic element?  B.O.F.H. | 07/01/04
If other Countries Did This To Us  ParadigmOdyssey | 07/01/04
Playstation III leaps to top of computing kingdom!  oldskool | 07/01/04
This will last as long as Dell's profit warnings...  BanjoPaterson | 07/02/04
Death Wish  John L. Ries | 07/02/04

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