Dodgy AS327933 ...?

Tom Beecher beecher at beecher.cc
Tue Aug 15 21:08:38 UTC 2023


>
> 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.

On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 12:21 PM Chris Cappuccio <chris at nmedia.net> wrote:

> Mark Tinka [mark at tinka.africa] wrote:
> >
> > It is not terribly clever of Mikrotik to have two commands that do
> different
> > things be that close in syntax.
> >
>
> 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.
>
>
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