The dude is exactly what any good developer would imagine when dreaming up how to write the perfect network monitor. I have posted the same argument in a plea over a year ago. If The Dude was made better by the community at no cost to you, doesn't that just make your core RouterOS platform that much more attractive? Let's face it, you've got nothing to lose, since you already give it away for free, and everything to gain - since it's already an extension on your existing platform. Prince of Persia was the most recent example, wasn't it? Of course there are many more valid reasons, and there are many precedents where this has worked for other vendors. Let us fix the things that you haven't been able to fix to date - Real Linux support, web interface on RouterOS, and the numerous other reported outstanding bugs. Provide a ready-made code base to the community that opens your SDK up for others to create NPK files to extend your excellent (and core) base platform. Allow the community to take over further development of a non-core asset from MikroTik, that you are no longer committing any resources to.Ģ. Here are three simple reasons why MikroTik should do this:ġ. With a few days past and a stern silence from MikroTik, I'd like to suggest to MikroTik that they consider Open Sourcing The Dude. In my previous thread, I took a bold move in suggesting that MikroTik was no longer committed to The Dude and had effectively silently abandoned it.
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