Re: Drobo (was: Netgear ReadyNAS Pro?) -- PCTECH

Subject: Re: Drobo (was: Netgear ReadyNAS Pro?)
From: Lukas Beeler <lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:06:04 +0100
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On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 18:47, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"This is the first time in my 25+ years in computing that a hardware manufacturer has informed me that it wants to charge me for a firmware upgrade. I innocently checked my Drobo for firmware updates yesterday and was startled to receive the message above."

I have to pay maintenance for our Juniper firewalls.
I have to pay maintenance for our Cisco switches.
I have to pay maintenance for our NetApp filer.
I have to pay maintenance for Windows.
I have to pay maintenance for IBM i.

I don't get it. Yeah, it may be new for consumer devices, but then
again most consumer oriented appliances are completely full of bugs
and work only when they decide they want to.

Besides, looking at the comments it looks like the policy was already repealed.

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