Comments on: The Time for Freedom-Respecting Routers Has Come http://techrights.org/2013/12/10/open-router-project/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Dr. Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2013/12/10/open-router-project/comment-page-1/#comment-139543 Wed, 11 Dec 2013 22:28:23 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=74039#comment-139543 Canonical only joined the Linux Foundation at a very late stage.

]]> By: Needs Sunlight http://techrights.org/2013/12/10/open-router-project/comment-page-1/#comment-139539 Wed, 11 Dec 2013 21:32:30 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=74039#comment-139539 I hadn’t thought of that before. Canonical could possibly make a lot of money on networking the way Red Hat has made on servers. Being open source / free software is also a major security and privacy selling point. At the worst it only means the buyer can swap in other free software on the hardware.

It would mean a lot of kernel work though. That’s not an area where Canonical has historically been active.

]]> By: Dr. Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2013/12/10/open-router-project/comment-page-1/#comment-139538 Wed, 11 Dec 2013 21:27:28 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=74039#comment-139538 Ubuntu has just got a hardware partner. It will be interesting to receive some details on hardware compatibility with an entirely free/libre software stack.

]]> By: Needs Sunlight http://techrights.org/2013/12/10/open-router-project/comment-page-1/#comment-139525 Wed, 11 Dec 2013 11:51:46 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=74039#comment-139525 There is already a fair amount of useful hardware on the market. On much of it, it is possible to build powerful L2 and L3 routers using Quagga or Zebra and iptables on Linux or OpenBGP and PF on BSD.

What’s needed is more publicity of established sites where such technology is already used in production to reach the do-it-in-house crowd. However, there are a lot of managers that want off-the-shelf with irrational fervor. These can only be reached by companies offering ready “solutions” from a catalog. Such companies can make progress, but will have a hard time beating the marketing budget (including “free” “training” and “free” meals) of Cisco.

]]>