Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NAS4Free (2nd nomination)


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The result was   merge to FreeNAS. J04n(talk page) 11:17, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

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Completing nomination on behalf of User:Piotrus, who will be around shortly to offer a rationale. On the merits, I have no opinion. UltraExactZZ Said~ Did 20:53, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. The rationale is simple: fails notability and uses only self-published sources. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 21:17, 11 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Plenty of ghits: should be an uncontroversial merge to FreeNAS. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 16:08, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 03:16, 17 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mediran  ( t  •  c ) 10:11, 18 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Merge There are a number of Google hits from independent sources, but all except one were blog/forum contributions, considered unreliable by WP standards. The one reliable source, DistroWatch, only has a paragraph on the distribution, not quite enough to be in depth. The topic seems to fail general notability guidelines WP:GNG, but the topic is clearly verifiable. Since this software is a fork of an earlier version of FreeNAS, it would make sense to merge it into that article. I'd recommend against a redirect, as the two distributions have diverged in licenses and content. --Mark viking (talk) 11:35, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Merge Despite what FreeNAS's article says, FreeNAS 8.x and FreeNAS 9.x are still based on FreeBSD and the feared switch to GNU/Debian never happened in the first place (that specific idea is now a different project named OpenMediaVault), neither the change of the product name by iXSystems, hence the aforementioned NAS4Free's fork is no more justified; on top of that, the story told by NAS4free (cit.): "After the FreeNAS name was legally acquired by iXsystems, Inc. (year 2011), the code was unable to be developed any longer under the same name, and a name change was necessary. The founder of FreeNAS (Olivier Cochard-Labbé) did donate the original FreeNAS source code to NAS4Free project. IXsystems no longer wanted us to release new builds under the FreeNAS name, so the only option was to leave the FreeNAS project after so many years.", is clearly a lie as iXsystems never forced the FreeNAS's original developers to stop the project (on the contrary, Olivier Cochard-Labbé is still the founder and main developer of FreeNAS, see ). As well explained in the FreeNAS's wiki (see |FreeNAS), originally NAS4Free was just a mere fork for legacy development of the old FreeNAS's 7.x branches (which were no more supported by iXsystems's EOL policies), nothing else. iXSystems simply asked them to stop to identify their fork as FreeNAS, because was misleading and a trademark infringement, so the change of the name in NAS4Free was required. In short, all the facts about NAS4Free are just hype and rumors (no reliable sources about Olivier Cochard-Labbé donating open-source code from FreeNAS to NAS4Free, no sources at all) of ex-developers from the original FreeNAS's team holding a grunge against iXsystems, hence, NAS4Free's article must be merged into FreeNAS for coherence. Toffanin (talk) 15:43, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
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