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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior)
Deepak Jain wrote: Competition & capitalism are great in my book. My personal worry about this kind of overpricing is when it is combined with legal muscle power (via patents et al.) to prevent _fair_ competition. Cisco do not appear to be trying that in the hardware area, or at least that's how it looks from the outside - as someone who has never ever bought a single cisco product in over 10 years of being here.One could argue that this public & private chaffing is what precipitates the competition that alleviates the condition. If another vendor doesn't realize there is demand... On the other hand, the use of patent licenses (like those that say "free if you don't claim against us") for things like VRRP do worry me. rgds, -- Peter
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