On 1/27/2016 1:23 PM, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > Jeffrey, > > Those of us who are not AuriStor customers are naturally reluctant to > depend on AuriStor's continued generosity in making these clients > freely available. (And those of us who are SNA customers are > naturally desirous of a client that is supported under our SNA > contracts.) > > -GAWollman
Garrett, At the moment fewer than 4% of client downloads from our site are being used to access cells that fund the development of those clients. It is for that exact reason that we stopped distributing clients via the OpenAFS web site. Even though all of the effort, expenses and liability associated with producing the Windows and OSX and iOS clients were borne by AuriStor, Inc. (formerly known as Your File System, Inc.), the money that should have paid for the development went into someone else's bank account. Developers do not work for free. If you full time job is developing and supporting a distributed file system, it is not a hobby and you expect to get paid. Otherwise it isn't possible to put a roof over your head and feed your spouse and kids. freeloader noun a person who takes advantage of others' generosity without giving anything in return. This is the appropriate term describing the vast majority of AFS cell operators around the globe. My guess is that fewer than 20% of cell operators spend any money supporting the development, packaging and distribution of software supporting their cell. The AuriStor File System is not free. There are real costs associated with developing the clients, the servers, and the admin tooling. Not to mention mobile friendly html5 web front-ends, nfs3 front ends, and other proxy services. AuriStor clients are not built from the OpenAFS code base. They are built from the AuriStor code base and provide seamless access to IBM AFS 3.6, OpenAFS and AuriStor File System services. As the saying goes, you get what you pay for. If you want a file system that provides wire privacy that isn't using a watered down 1970s deprecated encryption system, support for the IPv6 that is available from your home and mobile Internet providers, the ability to host imap mail or other multi-writer workloads in /afs without melting down the cell, and the ability to saturate servers with multiple 10gbit NICs, give us a ring. Jeffrey Altman
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