[nsp] Purchase Cisco IOS

[Robert E. Seastrom]

Gerald <gcoon at inch.com> writes:

> On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, james wrote:
> 
> > I understand this is not the case in some countries, outside the USA. Perhaps the EU
> > or UK ?
> 
> This would just give me warm fuzzies all over. Now Cisco is screwing the
> US out of a competitive advantage because of greed related to
> after-markets. Why go with a U.S. company that has to pay the license fee
> when you can get the cheap country X to provide the service since they
> went around the Law.

In for a dime going around intellectual property law, in for a dollar.
Why not just go for broke and spec a Quidway R2620 in your next proposal?
http://www.futurewei.com/itemsdetail.asp?catid=4&dt=products&id=80

                                        ---Rob