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Re: Cisco in bed with the commies!

  • From: Mark Kaepplein
  • Date: Tue Jun 17 16:35:34 1997
  • Posted-date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 21:40:14 +0200 (MET DST)
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)....