[189147] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: sub $500-750 CPE firewall for voip-centric application
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aris Lambrianidis)
Fri May 6 15:34:17 2016
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Date: Fri, 06 May 2016 21:34:10 +0200
From: Aris Lambrianidis <effulgence@gmail.com>
To: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
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Mel Beckman wrote:
> But bug reports and response can be measured, at least by those with
> support contracts for the commercial products. I found PFSense less
> reliable by a quite large margin than commercial offerings. Plus when
> I have a problem, I can open a case and somebody else is working on it
> (because I paid them to), and they usually solve the problem without a
> lot more involvement on my part.
Valid points, my intention was to share my thoughts on certification and
audit processes in general, and I guess in the process derail the thread
a bit.
Back to pfSense, arguably the point you raise is even stronger than the
"bad coding practices" one. I might even say I personally don't care
much about coding practices as I care about support services being
prompt and effective. The latter
*may* actually lead to good coding practices, but not the other way around.
Aris
