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Re: Cisco in bed with the commies!
From: Mark Kaepplein <Mark_Kaepplein () BayNetworks COM>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 15:31:47 -0400
Don't worry. The US government is obviously not exporting the country's best technology and undermining national security. Those products should still meet China's software and CD manufacturing requirements, however. At 01:35 PM 6/17/97 -0500, Jon Green wrote:
NOTE: This is not intended to be serious. :) I think we should all boycott Cisco over this (not that I'd buy their products in the first place..) Their partnership with censors of a communist regime is repugnant. Using the modern technology to build a giant brainwashing machine is very scary.
SAN JOSE, Calif. - June 17, 1997 - The Beijing Telecommunications Administration (BTA) has selected Cisco Systems' StrataCom(R) Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) switches for the city's first metropolitan-area network (MAN)....
Current thread:
- Cisco in bed with the commies! Jon Green (Jun 17)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Cisco in bed with the commies! Mark Kaepplein (Jun 17)
- Re: Cisco in bed with the commies! Vadim Antonov (Jun 17)
- Re: Cisco in bed with the commies! Edward Fang (Jun 17)
- Re: Cisco in bed with the commies! Scott Landman (Jun 17)
- Re: Cisco in bed with the commies! Mark Kaepplein (Jun 17)
- Re: Cisco in bed with the commies! Scott Landman (Jun 17)
- Re: Cisco in bed with the commies! Vadim Antonov (Jun 17)