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Re: Dodgy AS327933 ...?
From: Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2023 09:49:48 -0400
That's a terrible excuse for the shitty concepts behind MikroTik's CLI.
Fear of being sued into oblivion by a massive corporation, even if they're in the wrong, has influenced many choices in technology. To be clear, I am not stating that Mikrotik made the CLI choices they did BECAUSE of that concern. I have no knowledge there. I do know that Much Larger Vendors have absolutely made tradeoffs because they didn't want to deal with legal actions from Another Large Vendor or Patent Troll, so it's not exactly uncommon. On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 5:43 PM Chris Cappuccio <chris () nmedia net> wrote:
Tom Beecher [beecher () beecher cc] wrote:It should be a huge embarrasment to the designers. They survive on low price and unique features. It would be quite amazing to have a CLIwithoutthe nonsense.That ship sailed years ago. Even though the legal precedent was set after Cisco vs Arista that CLI elements that are of common , standard usage aren't copyrightable, nobody wants to take the risk. So they come up with other ways that tend to be not good.That's a terrible excuse for the shitty concepts behind MikroTik's CLI. I'm not saying my stuff is much better, but yeah, actually I am.
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- Re: Dodgy AS327933 ...?, (continued)
- Re: Dodgy AS327933 ...? Nick Hilliard (Aug 11)
- Re: Dodgy AS327933 ...? Mark Tinka (Aug 11)
- Re: Dodgy AS327933 ...? Nick Hilliard (Aug 11)
- Re: Dodgy AS327933 ...? Mark Tinka (Aug 11)
- Re: Dodgy AS327933 ...? Nick Hilliard (Aug 11)
- Re: Dodgy AS327933 ...? Mark Tinka (Aug 11)
- Re: Dodgy AS327933 ...? August Yang via NANOG (Aug 11)
- Re: Dodgy AS327933 ...? Chris Cappuccio (Aug 14)
- Re: Dodgy AS327933 ...? Tom Beecher (Aug 15)
- Re: Dodgy AS327933 ...? Chris Cappuccio (Aug 15)
- Re: Dodgy AS327933 ...? Tom Beecher (Aug 16)
- Re: Dodgy AS327933 ...? Mike Hammett (Aug 15)
- Re: Dodgy AS327933 ...? Chris Cappuccio (Aug 15)
- Re: Dodgy AS327933 ...? Mike Hammett (Aug 15)
- Re: Dodgy AS327933 ...? Chris Cappuccio (Aug 15)
- Re: Dodgy AS327933 ...? Nick Hilliard (Aug 15)
- Re: Dodgy AS327933 ...? Mark Tinka (Aug 15)
- Re: Dodgy AS327933 ...? Rubens Kuhl (Aug 15)
- Re: Dodgy AS327933 ...? Jay Hennigan (Aug 11)
- Re: Dodgy AS327933 ...? Malte Tashiro via NANOG (Aug 12)
- Re: Dodgy AS327933 ...? Nick Hilliard (Aug 12)