> From: Steve Sloan II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Gautam Mukunda wrote: > > http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/000/922dgmtd asp > > > I don't really have the technical background to assess some > > of the claims made here. Nick? You probably have some > > experience with the issues involved. Anyone else? It seems > > to be a pretty strong rebuttal to the techno-utopians. > > According to the article, Cisco, Yahoo!, AOL, and SUN have bent > over backwards (and metaphorically spread their legs? :-( ) > and put in some hard work to help the Chinese government > repress and monitor Chinese internet usage. If a corporation > is legally considered a person for some purposes, can it also > be tried for treason? Believe it or not, Microsoft actually > showed a little heroism in this area: > > > When Chinese authorities ordered Microsoft to surrender its > > software's underlying source codes--the keys to encryption-- > > as the price of doing business there, Microsoft chose to > > fight, spearheading an unprecedented Beijing-based coalition > > of American, Japanese, and European Chambers of Commerce. > > Faced with being left behind technologically, the Chinese > > authorities dropped their demands.
You have four choices for world dictator-world-emperor-overlord: 1 SUN CEO Scott McNealy 2 Oracle CEO Larry Ellison 3 AOL TW chairman Ted Turner 4 Microsoft chairman Bill Gates Who do you choose?
