[73598] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Galbavy)
Mon Aug 30 13:39:43 2004
From: "Peter Galbavy" <peter.galbavy@knowtion.net>
To: "Deepak Jain" <deepak@ai.net>,
"Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
Cc: "Mikael Abrahamsson" <swmike@swm.pp.se>, <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 18:38:48 +0100
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Deepak Jain wrote:
> 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...
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.
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
