> > But there *could* be someone out there downloading new IOS who doesn't > have a support contract! That's *literally* stealing food from the > mouths of Cisco coders! > > In the same way as the music, movie and software industries decide that > they're not selling as much as they think they should, and introduce > various DRM measures that achieve nothing other than to inconvenience > and alienate legitimate customers, Cisco have decided they're not > selling as many support contracts as they think they should, and have > introduced the New Improved Download Experience and the IOS 15 > nodelocked licence clusterfuck. > > Welcome to the future... >
As for selling contracts they made that so easy as well.... They are now just upgrading the download experience to match. It's a coordinated effort. First alienate partners, then customers. Hopefully next up is management , then maybe things will change! Brian _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/