Re: NYT on IBM GAK

[Rich Burroughs <richieb@teleport.com>]

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