I can picture
someone at Cisco throwing chairs around right about now
Arista says US Customs officials will wave in shipments of its latest-generation kit after deciding that the gear does not infringe Cisco's patents. Earlier this year, Cisco landed an import ban on Arista gear because it ripped off its intellectual property. Arista rejigged some of its software to avoid infringing Cisco's …
The first primitive text based interface I remember was with a teletype and we will not discuss how long ago that was to protect the senile (me).
If 'zilla's patents are truly valid why don't they go after Slurp for DOS or ATT for Unix? I suspect both CLIs predate the patents.
Cisco lawyers are Supremely confident that they will win the ITC lawsuit against Arista. And if not, they wlll find something else to sue Arista on. The big one being the MPLS code they developed in record time for the 7500R using most of the software design team of the CIsco 7000 MPLS software team that used to report to Jayshree at Cisco. The lawsuits will never stop between them unless a judge makes them settle.