[c-nsp] Software Download Enhancements

[Gary Stanley]

At 02:46 PM 11/15/2010, Justin M. Streiner wrote:
>On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, Pavel Skovajsa wrote:
>
>>I have just received notification below.
>>[...]
>>To improve your experience with Cisco and protect your investment in
>>Cisco Products, we're pleased to announce the improvement of Software
>>download entitlement controls effective December 13, 2010.
>
>I foresee lots of TAC cases being opened by pissed-off users on 13 
>December.  I'm not saying that to be flippant, just 
>realistic.  Managing support entitlements is already a big enough 
>headache for large organizations.

Indeed. This was bound to happen, I guess, they simply need more 
money for support contracts, since their latest round of earnings was 
down sharply.