[pyre]

For starters, it looks like this could be an issue:

  Can I add support for stack Y myself?

  No but we’d be happy to talk about it.

If this was FOSS, you could easily add support for your own stack rather than being at the mercy of their limited amount of time to work on it.

[coryking]

And who is really going to do that? Do I have time at my day job to port some network packet editor to the platform of my choice? Is management going to fund such an effort, or are they just gonna pay for the app?

[rjgray]

I presume by 'Stack Y' they mean a network protocol not supported out of the box, rather than a platform the editor doesn't yet run on.

[wirefloss]

Correct.

[gear54rus]

If your management sees it as an opportunity to advance, why not? It's about having the ability to do so vs not having it because somebody else decided this for you.