[c-nsp] Suggested Time - 1pm CET + US/Eastern - Wednesday - Re: CCO Login to ftp.cisco.com hosed [was Re: FYI: SXI5 posted]

[Tim Franklin]

----- "Gert Doering" <gert at greenie.muc.de> wrote:

> Not that IOS for Sup720 would run on non-Cisco hardware, so pirating
> doesn't really make *that* much sense...

But there *could* be someone out there downloading new IOS who doesn't have a support contract!  That's *literally* stealing food from the mouths of Cisco coders!

In the same way as the music, movie and software industries decide that they're not selling as much as they think they should, and introduce various DRM measures that achieve nothing other than to inconvenience and alienate legitimate customers, Cisco have decided they're not selling as many support contracts as they think they should, and have introduced the New Improved Download Experience and the IOS 15 nodelocked licence clusterfuck.

Welcome to the future...

Regards,
Tim.