MatthewSteinhoff
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- Joined
- Feb 2, 2016
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After I read @MatthewSteinhoff 's comments, it dawned on me that it could be a threat to iXsystems if too many potential customers like him use FreeNAS instead of TrueNAS.
As an aside, @MatthewSteinhoff and his company are willing to pay to help support the development of FreeNAS. FreeNAS is an incredibly valuable product, we appreciate the work of iXsystems and think everyone should be able to make an honest living. If there were a software-only offering or a support-only offering we'd sign up. We just don't need a hardware solution.
I've spent my entire career surfing the line between free and paid solutions. I've bought a few RHEL licenses because I've used a lot of CentOS. I've bought pfSense appliances because I've deployed far more pfSense instances on repurposed hardware. I've bought XenServer licenses but used the free version (a lot) instead. I get that a paid product may have more features than the free version and am okay with that. (So long as I don't need one of the paid features. ;)) Both experience and my gut tells me iXsystems loses few sales to FreeNAS and has a much larger group of bug testers, supporters and entryways into corporations thanks to that free offering.
Can I flag my own post as off-topic?
Cheers,
Matt