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1996-10-03 - Re: NYT on IBM GAK

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From: Rich Burroughs <richieb@teleport.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: 566e9cd636a632f804b2d29be4520c33dff1fbb77b989c6e2d4353751b4dbaa0
Message ID: <3.0b24.32.19961002181037.0067e434@mail.teleport.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-10-03 09:31:50 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 17:31:50 +0800

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From: Rich Burroughs <richieb@teleport.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 17:31:50 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: NYT on IBM GAK
Message-ID: <3.0b24.32.19961002181037.0067e434@mail.teleport.com>
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At 02:03 PM 10/2/96 -0800, you wrote:
>At 08:26 AM 10/2/96 -0700, Lucky Green wrote:
>>
>>
>>On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, John Young wrote:
>>
>>>    The New York Times, October 2, 1996, pp. D1, D8. 
>>>    Executives of the International Business Machines 
>>>    Corporation said late yesterday that they were still lining 
>>>    up the final list of companies in the alliance. Those 
>>>    involved will include Digital Equipment and smaller 
>>>    data-security companies including RSA Data Security, Cylink 
>>>    and Trusted Information Systems. 
>>
>>We are in deep trouble.
>>--Lucky
>
>Wouldn't a letter-writing campaign be in order here?  
[snip]

The word "boycott" leaped into my mind.  I personally do not believe that I
will be buying products from any of these companies, as long as thay
participate in this GAK charade.



Rich

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