Move North, Eh

from the Gotta-give-those-Canadians-credit dept

Those crazy Canadians are trying to get Microsoft to relocate their corporate headquarters about 200 miles north of Seattle to British Columbia. The reasoning is that they wouldn't be subject to the same stringent enforcement laws that Microsoft is dealing with now in the form of the U.S. government. Somehow I just can't see Bill Gates singing "O Canada!"
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    Mike (profile), 2 Jun 2000 @ 12:45pm

    This is just silly

    Thanks to the Register for posting an article about this whole mess that explains why they didn't want to post it, but then as it got bigger and bigger realized they just had to. But, then explaining why it's a really stupid story:

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/000602-000021.html

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