Cisco: Do you ever say no?
Classic clip from this week’s UN internet governance forum in Athens. Art Reilly, Cisco’s senior Director for Strategic Technology Policy, wriggles just a little under questioning from the audience about Cisco’s business dealings with the Chinese authorities, who use Cisco routers to filter internet traffic passing through the “Great firewall”.
My favourite part is the exchange between the chair and Reilly at the end:
Chair: “Do you ever say no?”
Reilly: Looks questioningly at chair
Chair: “Do you ever take a view ‘we must not sell’”
Reilly: “Obviously there are business conditions that are important with regard to the sale, establishing a price, and our ability to actually deliver…”
Watch the clip here (via IPJustice)
My favourite part is the exchange between the chair and Reilly at the end:
Chair: “Do you ever say no?”
Reilly: Looks questioningly at chair
Chair: “Do you ever take a view ‘we must not sell’”
Reilly: “Obviously there are business conditions that are important with regard to the sale, establishing a price, and our ability to actually deliver…”
Watch the clip here (via IPJustice)
