Hannah Schroeter wrote:
IIRC there're consultants offering commercial services around OpenBSD,
too. So you could've hired one to fix the Broadcom problem of yours,
just like you paid for Nortel's on-site troubleshooting.
Not to inflame the issue, but this isn't as solid of an argument as it appears. Knowing
in advance whether you'll be able to find a consultant who knows enough about your problem
to fix it is very tenuous.
I'm not saying vendor support is always reliable either, but generally a commercial
vendor is expected to understand the depths of their own product.
If one could guarantee that the person who wrote the problematic code were always
available as a consultant, the analogy might be closer, but frequently that's not the
case. Even a commercialized open source OS like Red Hat Linux is going to face this issue.
Then again, OpenBSD is free. No one expects it to be exactly like commercial software,
and it has a lot of benefits that commercial software won't. Choose the tool that best
fits the requirements.
Dan
Kind regards,
Hannah.
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