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Vietnam Courts Microsoft and Vice Versa

Posted by timothy on from the you-look-good-in-that-dress-no-really dept.

wbren writes "Bill Gates and Vietnam's Prime Minister Phan Van Khai have signed two 'memoranda of understanding' regarding Microsoft's presence in Vietnam, according to this AP story. They met Monday at Microsoft's Redmond headquarters for a closed door meeting and a tour of Microsoft's "home of the future". The agreement reached is expected to strengthen Vietnam's IT industry, as well as provide software training for 50,000 of the country's teachers. Khai's visit also triggered protests in Seattle, reminding everyone of Vietnam's human rights record."

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  1. This doesn't change anything by donscarletti · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Now remember, nomatter what happens with Microsoft and the Vietnamese government or making censorship software for China, it's still Linux that's the un-democratic, commie OS that is against the principles of the United States, freedom, peace and everything that is fair and just.

    If you say otherwise you're just a commie too. Good freedom loving software is made in Redmond.

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  2. Re:And again by gowen · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    perfectly grammatically correct
    It's grammatically correct. The only problem is, it doesn't mean what you think it does (if it means anything at all).

    "Could've" is fine, and correct, and actually means something.

    "I could of died", is the conditional of "I of died", which is meaningless.
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  3. Re:Why can't teachers at MY KIDS school get traini by loose+canons · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    People wouldn't complain. Slashdotters would complain.

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    You call that a troll? I have a whole beltway full of trolls better than that!
  4. Re:And again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    You left out:

    • for all intensive purposes
  5. Obligatory Bush quote by farker+haiku · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You're either with us, or you are with the terrorists.

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  6. Re:Heh by MoralHazard · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You don't know, man! You weren't THERE!

  7. Re:Minnie Rosoft by elrous0 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I courted Mike Rosoft's sister Minnie for a while. She sure was pretty to look at but turned all shades of blue anytime I suggested trying something new.

    Yeah, but on the bright side, she was always going down on you.

    -Eric

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  8. *Vietnam's* rights record? by whitroth · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Let's see: the US set up a literal puppet governement in 'Nam in '56; refused to allow free and fair UN-sponsored elections, ran a war that killed 1-2 MILLION Vietnames.

    Then, the Vietnamese, *not* the US, went into Cambodia to break the self-proclaimed Communist Pol Pot murdeeers, and the US (under Reagan) supported Pol Pot.

    Now the US invaded and conquered Iraq on the baiss of 100% lies, and killed somewhere between 60,000 and 100,000 people, and another 1700+ US troops, and destroyed a country.

    Meanwhile, at home, 40 years later, we're trying someone for racist murder; blacks and hispanics are under permanent persecution, and down here in the South, I don't *dare* openly reveal my non-Christian beliefs.

    Vietnam's got a bad human rights record?

    Oh, sorry, I see they're trying to follow our lead, and, as a start, will put M$ on their computers....

    mark