Indian blogger quits IBM because of campus fracas

Om Malik | Monday, October 10, 2005 | 3:15 PM PT | 5 comments

India Uncut has details about Gaurav Sabnis, a popular Indian blogger, who linked to an article by a local magazine that did not go down too well with IIPM, a local business school. IIPM started putting undue pressure on IBM and hinting that they will burn all IBM laptops and more. In his post Gaurav makes it clear that he left of his own accord because of “some really bizarre threats that were apparently made by IIPM to IBM.” This is just bizzare. Read the whole thread of stories here, here and here.

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