Comments on: AMD chipmaking spinoff gets OK from U.S.

The Foundry Company gets the green light to go forward from the U.S. government.

[nicmart]

In a free country a company does not need the permission of the government to conduct business.

[Logecy]

I do so enjoy it when someone talks about the one of the virtues of a "free country" being the ability to conduct business without little things like permission (which falls under the oversight), when various governments are the only things keeping?literally?hundreds of companies in the US and abroad from bankruptcy.

By the way, selling heroin is also "business" to some, yet I suspect that you don't have an issue with the government intervening in that particular enterprise; even in a country as "free" as ours.

[Logecy]

I love it when I hear people equate a "free country" with the ability to conduct business, which works until a company jumps the shark. Then it's the government's problem, right?

[gfsdfge]

I live in Saratoga County NY. AMD came to NY and said it would open a plant. Our Politicians bribed them with a BILLION dollars of our tax money to build the plant. Now they say they'll only own a small percentage? I think this was a bait and switch. We should not give a Billion dollars to a company from Abu Dhabi. I wish the corperate press, like NBC, would junmp on this.