"Proprietary" means "if you ever have issues with that that our support won't be able to solve for you in meaningful time span, you're basically out of luck".

"Proprietary" means "if you ever have issues with that that our support won't be able to solve for you in meaningful time span, you're basically out of luck". We're running a gateway router on Vyatta/VyOS and with every single hardware and software change we had some issues. Most were relatively minor (like default settings being not appropriate for our workload), already documented/solved by someone on the 'net. Some had required reading source code and debugging/profiling to see what goes on. Must also admit, some were beyond my understanding and were mysteriously solved with some shamanism and voodoo magic (like randomly tinkering with firmware and driver version combos).