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Hardware Manufacturers Gouging Customers

Posted by michael on from the just-say-no dept.

rahlquist writes "An article over at infoworld discusses that buying that used router on ebay may not be a good deal if Cisco can find its way to screwing you. What's next, buy a used Ford and pay Ford to transfer the license for the onboard computer's OS or face piracy charges if you continue to drive?"

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  1. Just like when you sell a car. by NetNinja · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When you purcahse the car it is taxed and then when you resell it to another person it is taxed again.
    Double taxation.

    You are taxed on your paycheck and then when you invest your money and it generates income it is taxed again.

    double taxation.

    unless you own your own corporation the working class tax serfs are always there to exploit.

  2. you mean you've never heard of zebra before? by RouterSlayer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    At least in the case of cisco routers, why bother?
    and with that microtek crap too!

    just go grab yourself a copy of Zebra, it's a fully
    GPL'd set of routing protocols for Linux/Unix/etc.

    What, you need special ports, etc? head on over to any number of suppliers, like zynx for example (sorry it was the first one I could think of off the top of my head).

    I mean, cripes, a company I knew many years ago built the worlds first wireless router using Zebra and disk on chip technology running picoBSD.

    it can be done folks, and without all the cost or hassle of cisco. The only good network equipment out there (IMHO) is Foundry anyhow...

  3. Re:What's the point? by twelvemonkeys · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's obvious you *do* run a small network if you think that EIGRP is better than OSPF. There is probably a reason why every medium to large ISP runs either OSPF or IS-IS, and its not because they don't want to get locked into Cisco.