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Hey, you think this is bad - look at enterprise networking gear. Cisco and Juniper try to convince people it's illegal to use "grey market" (resold) equipment b
by snuxoll 9y ago
Hey, you think this is bad - look at enterprise networking gear. Cisco and Juniper try to convince people it's illegal to use "grey market" (resold) equipment because the software license is "non-transferrable", so even if you "own" the hardware you don't have a license for the software attached to it. Of course, this flies in the face of the first-sale doctrine and established case law, but they don't care.
Just wait, somebody is going to try it with consumer devices sooner or later.
- hydrogen18 9y agoSo MegaCorp A buys a huge amount of Cisco gear to modern their internal networks in all their infrastructure. Two years later OmniCorp B enters into a deal to add them to their portfolio for whatever price they agreed upon. OmniCorp B now owns the physical Cisco gear but doesn't have a license to use it?
- convolvatron 9y agohow big of a customer is OmniCorp?
- hydrogen18 9y agoSomeone on the scale of Atlas Copco https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Copco https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Copco