|
North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: CiSCO IOS 12.* source code stolen
On Tue, 18 May 2004, Alexei Roudnev wrote: > May be, it is a good idea - to release old (say, 10.0) IOS sources for the > colleges. It will allow them to practice in the hardware design > amd protocol implementation, using solid base of Cisco IOS. Or hand it over to the OpenBSD guys so they can just port to Cisco hardware. :) Charles > Even old, 10.0 IOS, is enough for this purpose. > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > What makes me excited at this news is, is there a chance to learn > details of IOS > > which may be one of most successful protocol implementations. And, if such > code is > > available to both college and engineers it will surelly do good to our > life. > > > > So, I'll be glad to see the releasing of those codes as what happened to > Microsoft. > > > > Joe > > > > > > > > >Some years ago I was arguing with my then department head (whom I have > > >the greatest respect for, it should be said) at Cisco that IOS should > > >be turned open source. Needless to say, the suggestion was met with > > >"some" resistance, mildly speaking. > > > > > > > > > > ---- Msg sent via Spymac Mail - http://www.spymac.com >
|