[82781] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco and the tobacco industry
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie (Paul Ferguson))
Thu Jul 28 22:15:39 2005
From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 02:07:46 GMT
To: dgolding@burtongroup.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Hey, Dan...
What's that they say abou 800 lb. Gorillas...
:-)
- ferg
-- Daniel Golding <dgolding@burtongroup.com> wrote:
Cisco's conduct in this case may or may not be improper - we'll have to wait
for a little more information. From a PR point of view, they probably should
have let things ride and allowed the Blackhat talk to occur. They look like
bullies now, which is never good. Hindsight is 20/20, though.
That being said, their policy of offering free updates for certain bug fixes
to those who don't pay them for support is generous. See that hand feeding
you? Don't bite it.
--
Daniel Golding
--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
Engineering Architecture for the Internet
fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net
ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
