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Re: CISCO Easter Egg
From: Tony Li <tli () juniper net>
Date: 29 Oct 1998 11:04:01 -0800
Not only interesting, but dishonest.
Sometimes, honesty is not the best way to get a job done. This is why society functions best with a 'little white lie'.
Forcing a company to spend money on false premise is tantamount to theft or conversion.
I believe that there is some confusion here. There was no money that changed hands. There was no requirement to upgrade imposed by Cisco. The conflict that Sean cites is wholly internal to the company running the network. If operations insists that a box not be rebooted even though the network is not operational, that sometimes leaves the network engineer in a difficult position: they can't repair the problem and they can't repair the problem. At the same time, the command was installed so that Cisco could actually test crash procedures. [Yes, you do have to test them. Yes, it helps if there is a deterministic and constant way of testing them. ;-) ] Thus, from Cisco's viewpoint, this was simply exposing an existing mechanism. Tony
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- CISCO Easter Egg Martin, Christian (Oct 27)
- Re: CISCO Easter Egg Sam Etler (Oct 28)
- Re: CISCO Easter Egg Bernhard Kroenung (Oct 28)
- Re: CISCO Easter Egg Jonathan A. Zdziarski (Oct 28)
- Re: CISCO Easter Egg Bernhard Kroenung (Oct 28)
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- RE: CISCO Easter Egg Martin, Christian (Oct 28)
- Re: CISCO Easter Egg Sean M. Doran (Oct 29)
- Re: CISCO Easter Egg Scott Mace (Oct 29)
- RE: CISCO Easter Egg Martin, Christian (Oct 29)
- Re: CISCO Easter Egg Steven J. Sobol (Oct 29)
- RE: CISCO Easter Egg Roeland M.J. Meyer (Oct 29)
- Re: CISCO Easter Egg Tony Li (Oct 29)
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- Re: CISCO Easter Egg Jay R. Ashworth (Oct 30)
- Re: CISCO Easter Egg Sam Etler (Oct 28)
- RE: CISCO Easter Egg Martin, Christian (Oct 29)
- Re: CISCO Easter Egg Richard Irving (Oct 29)
- RE: CISCO Easter Egg Bill Woodcock (Oct 29)
- Re: CISCO Easter Egg John Mammen (Oct 29)
- RE: CISCO Easter Egg Sean M. Doran (Oct 29)
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