On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 18:25 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: > On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Gerry Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Or, Buy a used Cisco router on Ebay ... > > I thought with Cisco, the IOS (firmware) license wasn't > transferable, so even if you bought used hardware, you still had to > buy an IOS license from Cisco?
Really? I had no idea. I would have thought the IOS license would go with the hardware. It's not as if it has somehow transferred to another piece of hardware. But then Microsoft has weird and wonderful licensing so there's no reason why Cisco would be any different. That's one reason I like GPL'd stuff so much. Way less complicated. I've been going through the Microsoft terminal/user/device/per processor/enterprise licensing cruft lately and I value Linux that much more for the experience ;^) -Alex > > (One can violate the license, of course. But I, personally, find > that dishonest and distasteful. Especially since many depend on a > license -- the GPL -- for certain Free Software protections. Indeed, > one of the big reasons third-party firmware modifications in the SOHO > router market took off was that the GPL required LinkSys to publish > their source code changes. (Which they only did after some legal > prompting.)) > > -- Ben > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
