[10152] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco in bed with the commies!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Kaepplein)
Tue Jun 17 15:55:40 1997
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 15:31:47 -0400
To: Jon Green <jcgreen@netins.net>, nanog@merit.edu
From: 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)....
