“People who make excuses for or actively advocate closed-source OSs and network software (and yes, Apple/iOS fanboys, I’m looking at you) are not merely harmlessly misguided cultists. They are enemies of liberty – enablers and accomplices before the fact in vendor schemes to spy on you, control you, and imprison you. Treat them, and the vendors they worship, accordingly.”

— Eric S. Raymond

Cisco provides a lesson http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4441 in Armed and Dangerous (5 July 2012)

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