[ltp] US Government May Not Approve Sale of IBM PC Unit

[Winsley von Spee]

Sorry but I can not agree ... This is an Thinkpad mailing list und IBM
is the manufacturer of the thinkpad notebooks ... and nobody said this
is a technical only mailinglist ... *g*

But I thought such a thing would happen but is it good or bad news for
me and my tp ... ???

Greetz 

Am Dienstag, den 25.01.2005, 10:15 -0500 schrieb SOTL:
> It should on the SLUG Political list or on Slashdot but hopeful NOT here.
> 
> Frank
> 
> On Tuesday 25 January 2005 09:33 am, Jeff wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I thought this might spur some interesting conversation.  Taken from
> > Slashdot this morning:
> >
> > Politics: US Government May Not Approve Sale of IBM PC Unit
> >
> >
> > Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday January 25, @06:00AM
> > from the not-at-any-price dept.
> > andy1307 writes "Xinhua, among others, quotes a Bloomberg report
> > saying the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States, or
> > CFIUS, might block the sale of IBM's PC unit to Lenovo over national
> > security concerns. CFIUS is made up of 11 U.S. agencies, including the
> > Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, and is
> > chaired by the Treasury Department. They are concerned Lenovo
> > employees might be used to conduct industrial espionage. The Bloomberg
> > story said members of CFIUS were focusing their attention on an IBM
> > facility in North Carolina of the United States. The same article says
> > IBM hasnt produced its own PCs for several years and that the bulk of
> > its production is done by manufacturing partners, largely in China. In
> > the past, CFIUS has blocked the sale of Global crossing to Hutchison
> > Whampoa because it would have meant Chinese control of the undersea
> > cable communication network."
> >
> > http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/05/01/25/0347257.shtml?tid=137&tid=21
> >9
> >
> >
> > Thank you very much!
> >
> > -Jeff
>