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From: Peter Rabbitson <rabbit@rabbit.us>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] Dead Gateway Detection & BGP
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:21:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46D3081C.8000800@rabbit.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00a101c7e806$adc89500$0959bf00$@net.nz>

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


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-27 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-26 17:29 [LARTC] Dead Gateway Detection & BGP Rangi Biddle
2007-08-27 14:42 ` Grant Taylor
2007-08-27 16:51 ` Grant Taylor
2007-08-27 17:21 ` Peter Rabbitson [this message]
2007-08-29  5:27 ` Grant Taylor
2007-08-29  5:40 ` Grant Taylor
2007-08-30  1:50 ` Rangi Biddle
2007-08-30  2:40 ` Grant Taylor
2007-08-30  3:58 ` Grant Taylor

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