IPv6 Assignment Tracking Software

[Paul Timmins]

On 04/12/2011 06:58 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
> FWIW, as someone who develops open source software that is sometimes 
> used by large companies, I always thought that was a perfectly 
> reasonable perspective on the part of the IPPlan author. I certainly 
> don't see anything "anti-IPv6" about it. 

As someone who uses open source software, large companies often don't 
feel like subsidizing a feature that will ultimately be used by everyone 
else. There's a hundred different ways the author could have gone about 
it (take up a collection with a financial goal, publish a fixed price 
that wasn't dependent on the size of the asker) but instead shut out the 
very people who have the resources to say "screw it, if I have to pay, 
I'm just going to use my own developers for it, and with that attitude, 
I'm not submitting patches back".

So it's "anti-companies-large-enough-to-afford-helping" not wanting to 
be taken advantage of. I'd be shocked if the price that it would take 
didn't depend entirely on the perceived size of the asker's pockets.

-Paul