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

[Ken Firestone]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Michelle Klein-Hass wrote:

   On Tuesday 25 January 2005 05:25 am, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
   > http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/05/01/25/0347257.shtml?tid=137&tid=21
   >9

   You go, Uncle Sam!

   The potential Homeland Security issues of selling the IBM PSD to a company
   partially owned by the People's Republic of China are definitely worthy of
   concern.

   Maybe Apple might come in as a White Knight now. They'd certainly be a more
   appropriate company, and one more likely to maintain the quality level of the
   ThinkPad brand.

   Certainly there are many folks who would want one-stop-shopping for their
   business. If you could go to an Apple Store and not only order Macs but x86
   machines running Linux and or Windows, I am sure that they'd get a lot more
   business clients.

Or more likely, x86 machines running windoze or Mac OS X!

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