On 3/23/10 5:40 PM, Ted Unangst wrote:
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 4:36 PM, David Vasek<va...@fido.cz> wrote:
there are bad news about RB600A. As everybody can read on MicroTik's
website, RB600A has suddenly been discontinued:
http://www.routerboard.com/pricelist.php?showProduct=55
They also removed the case for this board.
Why did this happen? It comes to mind if that could possibly be related to
Mark's work on OpenBSD support of this device? Don't know.
I'm tired of participating in the cover up, so I'm going to speak the
truth. Several of MicroTik's competitors approached Mark and asked
him to support this board, in exchange for a bundle of cash. When
MicroTik refused to match the offer, support was added, thereby
forcing MicroTik to cease production.
The truth is that Cisco got involved here to stop this as it would kill
way to many routers they still sale over price and under power and not
able to do a tiny bit of what the RouterBoard on OpenBSD would do!
Didn't you see the announcement from Cisco trying to buy MicroTik to
make sure to kill the project and stop it in it's way to success?
These things scare way more router makers then you can possibly think
because it does work!
