Jim, I realize that - I’ve purchased thousands of dollars of your branded equipment to be installed at my corporate customer sites. However I find them lacking in some regards and have moved on to buying other hardware.
If you wanted to sell just your hardware to support the system you’d find a way to make it closed environment. Instead the system is open platform. We’re guests, as is the pfSense product in our homes and business. We are nice. We praise the product. I simply find the cost for the hardware and the functionality of it beyond what I can personally purchase for small businesses that cannot even afford to buy the equipment themselves. Ryan > On Aug 3, 2016, at 8:36 PM, Jim Thompson <j...@netgate.com> wrote: > > Here's all you need to know: > > 1) we only test releases on the hardware we sell, or have sold in the past > two years. (Obviously doesn't include VM images.) > > We don't intentionally break anything, but your J1900 box isn't in the test > matrix, nor will it ever be. That said, we have included > fixes for hardware that we'll never ship. The i217s on recent Intel NUCs > is one example. > > 2) Many people are employed making pfSense. Appliance sales make up the > largest part of the revenue that keeps them employed working on pfSense. > > If you want to support the project and make pfSense better, you’re welcome > to submit bugs or develop fixes. If you’re not a developer but want to > support the project, you can always purchase a Gold Subscription" > > 3) At the ram densities involved, ECC isn't going to buy you much. If we > were doing storage, the story would be different, but given the relative > error rates of Ethernet and non-ECC RAM, you're unlikely to ever detect a > bit error. Those of you still running on CF or "SD Cards" should worry > about your storage, not ECC ram. > > We could have put ECC on the RCC-VE boards, and chose not to. There isn't > a good reason for raising the cost (and therefore price). > > 4) Your enthusiasm for your j1900 box is understood, but this is the > pfsense list. > > You're a guest. Be nice. > > Jim > _______________________________________________ > pfSense mailing list > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
