On June 3, 2005, Ashlee Vance re****ted in London for the Register on
Dell's recent public relation disaster of relating Lenovo to sup****t of
China's communist government.
Read the article in
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/03/dell_lenovo_threat/
An outline of the article:
* "Chris" (the Dell sales manager) rightly points out that Lenovo,
which last year acquired IBM's PC business, is partly owned by the
Chinese government. So, some sales money would in fact make its way
back to The Reds.
* A Dell spokesman told Associated Press, "We have a code of conduct
that we uphold here for Dell in the U.S. and worldwide, specific
guidelines for not commenting on competitors from an employee's
standpoint."
* Xinhuanet cited an online survey that had 88 per cent of the 82,000
respondents saying Dell's stance was "a serious violation of fair
competition rules."
Xinhua News Agency re****ted Chris' email in the page
http://news.xinhuanet.com/it/2005-06/01/content_3030442_4.htm
