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Re: Dodgy AS327933 ...?


From: Chris Cappuccio <chris () nmedia net>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 14:43:54 -0700

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 CLI without
the 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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