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Re: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior)
From: "Peter Galbavy" <peter.galbavy () knowtion net>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 18:38:48 +0100
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
Current thread:
- RE: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior) Michel Py (Aug 27)
- RE: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior) Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 27)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior) Michel Py (Aug 28)
- Re: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior) Deepak Jain (Aug 28)
- Re: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior) Peter Galbavy (Aug 30)
- RE: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior) Mark Borchers (Aug 30)
- RE: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior) Simon Lyall (Aug 30)
- Re: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior) Matthew Palmer (Aug 30)
- RE: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior) Lars Erik Gullerud (Aug 30)
- Re: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior) Peter Galbavy (Aug 31)
- Re: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior) Deepak Jain (Aug 28)
- Re: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior) Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 29)