Re: A case against vendor-locking optical modules

["Justin M. Streiner" <streiner () cluebyfour org>]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, Jérôme Nicolle wrote:

> Is it unrealistic to hope for enough salesmen pressure on the corporate
> ladder to make such moronic attitude be reversed in the short term ?

No salesperson is likely to do that for you.  They know only to well that 
eliminating vendor lock-in means they will lose sales on artificially 
costly optics from $vendor to a lower-cost rival.  Less sales = less 
commission for the affected sales person.

jms