Re: Cisco in bed with the commies!

[Mark Kaepplein <Mark_Kaepplein () BayNetworks COM>]

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)....