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Re: Open source hardware
From: Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org>
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 17:18:33 +0000
On 04/01/2014 11:38, Saku Ytti wrote:
Right now some of the big name vendors are running really archaic and naive control-planes, and it's hard for them internally to justify project to rebuild it all, because customers will largely accept even the shitty control-plane, because that is only thing you get with that hardware.
Re: crappy control planes, I wouldn't particularly mind paying licensing fees if there were a choice about what software to use. But there isn't and you end up with with the worst of all worlds: no choice about which particular control plane software (and consequently which bug+feature set) you want to run, no incentive for vendors to deal with enhancements other than on the basis of how much revenue they'll create in the next quarter, and no option but to pay twice: once for the hardware and a second time if you actually want to use it. Open source control planes may not fix all these problems, but there is no doubt that they will put pressure on vendors to compete on uncomfortably close turf. Nick
Current thread:
- Re: Open source hardware, (continued)
- Re: Open source hardware Arnd Vehling (Jan 03)
- Re: Open source hardware Daniël W . Crompton (Jan 04)
- Re: Open source hardware Arnd Vehling (Jan 05)
- Re: Open source hardware TGLASSEY (Jan 06)
- Re: Open source hardware Daniël W . Crompton (Jan 04)
- Re: Open source hardware Ray Soucy (Jan 03)
- RE: Open source hardware Raymond Burkholder (Jan 03)
- Re: Open source hardware Saku Ytti (Jan 03)
- Re: Open source hardware Benno Overeinder (Jan 04)
- Re: Open source hardware Saku Ytti (Jan 04)
- Re: Open source hardware Nick Hilliard (Jan 04)
- Re: Open source hardware Mark Tinka (Jan 04)
- Re: Open source hardware Vlade Ristevski (Jan 07)
- Re: Open source hardware Ray Soucy (Jan 07)
- Re: Open source hardware Ray Soucy (Jan 08)
- Re: Open source hardware Saku Ytti (Jan 08)
- Re: Open source hardware Brandon Ross (Jan 08)
- Re: Open source hardware Saku Ytti (Jan 09)
- Re: Open source hardware Aled Morris (Jan 07)
- Re: Open source hardware Mark Tinka (Jan 08)
- Re: Open source hardware Thomas Nadeau (Jan 03)