From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Rabbitson Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:21:32 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Dead Gateway Detection & BGP Message-Id: <46D3081C.8000800@rabbit.us> List-Id: References: <00a101c7e806$adc89500$0959bf00$@net.nz> In-Reply-To: <00a101c7e806$adc89500$0959bf00$@net.nz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org Grant Taylor wrote: > I my self and the company that I work for want to offer as much back to > the community as it has offered to us. > My company has invested time and money > I am curious what the community's reaction is to this and ask for and > encourage responses with regards to when is it appropriate for > individuals / companies to move from "free to the public" support to > "reasonable rate commercial support". I for one can not speak for the community, but the three points highlighted above do not add up. Here is the scoring: Community Your Company Cost of help offered free paid Time/money investment large large 2 : 1 It is OK to charge for any provided service, good or bad. It is not OK to label this as "giving back as much as was offered". Regards Peter _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc