I think there are two clear policies here:
1. The forkability of the projects
2. The "niceness" of suppliers.
The first is a movement and project principle. The second is - loosely
- connected to a broader movement. It is philosophically and morally
dubious to coerce people to conform to our
On 2016-03-22 2:04 AM, James Salsman wrote:
Are the FreeBSD-based pfSense C2758 series in the Foundation's throughput tier?
[...]
That looks like decent mid-range gear, but definitely not the the
hardware-supported levels needed to support operations.
What are the current Foundation throu
Hoi,
Given that a Google and Facebook are working on networking equipment and
are making both hardware and associated freely available, it makes more
sense to concentrate on this high end solution. A solution that fits with
the need of WMF.
Thanks,
GerardM
PS I am not so interested that I kno
Le 22/03/2016 07:04, James Salsman a écrit :
>
>> >... as far as I know, high-end networking hardware is not
>> > available with Libre OSes
> Are the FreeBSD-based pfSense C2758 series in the Foundation's throughput
> tier?
>
> https://www.pfsense.org/products/product-family.html#c2758
>
> http
Marc A. Pelletier wrote:
>... as far as I know, high-end networking hardware is not
> available with Libre OSes
Are the FreeBSD-based pfSense C2758 series in the Foundation's throughput tier?
https://www.pfsense.org/products/product-family.html#c2758
https://portal.pfsense.org/docs/manuals/c275
See also:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Wikimedia_Foundation_Guiding_Principles#Freedom_and_open_source
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FLOSS-Exchange
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 6:44 PM, Marc A. Pelletier wrote:
> On 2016-03-21 6:15 PM, James Salsman wrote:
>>
>> Is there a list of
On 2016-03-21 6:15 PM, James Salsman wrote:
Is there a list of equipment that WMF uses without viable FLOSS
alternatives, please?
The switches and routers for one; as far as I know, high-end networking
hardware is not available with Libre OSes, nor would the supplier
support one flashed with
On 3/22/16 12:15 AM, James Salsman wrote:
> Is there a list of equipment that WMF uses without viable FLOSS
> alternatives, please?
Since the context here is t-shirts, I think we can understand Coren's
remarks in a very broad context, and so of course he's right. We might
choose to only do busine
Marc *Pelletier / Coren* wrote:
> I don't think it's reasonable to expect that every external supplier
> is all-FLOSS. For one, the movement would be pretty much stuck
> without hardware, networking gear, and power at the very least.
Is there a list of equipment that WMF uses without viable FLOSS
