Matt:<br>
I am ALWAYS grateful to someone like Thorben and the people at
Coalescent Systems (The AMP People) who are making Asterisk easy-to-use
for someone like me who is a non-programmer. My contribution can come
from testing and sharing my experiences, and of course, cash donations.<br>
<br>
Open-source model does work - Redhat is a large public company. Digium
is on its way to make money from support, from their business version
of Asterisk, and their ever expanding hardware offerings. And I am sure
- and hope - that AMP people do well.<br>
<br>
In my business experience, I have seen many successful commercial
software go open-source after the fact, just speed up the
development process. The almost-instant testing nad feedback is indeed
very valuable to the developer.<br>
<br>
I, like you, would hope that Thorben would decide to go open source.<br>
<br>
I do appreciate the dialog.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/15/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matt Riddell</b> <<a href="mailto:matt.riddell@sineapps.com">matt.riddell@sineapps.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
smbPBX wrote:<br>> Matt:<br>> I am surprised at your response!!!<br>><br>> Asterisk is open-source and that is why it so successful.<br>> So are AMP, Flash Opeartor Panel, and Asterisk@Home and they all have a
<br>> great following. If you listen to some great open-soutce software<br>> developers, they will tell you, among other things, that "making changes<br>> requested by the community" is what makes the software better.
<br>><br>> Anyway, the question was about the plocy when the software is finally<br>> released. Just getting a free download of a software doesn't add much value<br>> if you plan to use it for any serious purpose, especailly if it is in early
<br>> beta and doesn't work well.<br><br>:)<br><br>Maybe I mistook your intentions.<br><br>I have no problem with Open Source, but it is a gift from the developer to the<br>community not something you hassle someone about.
<br><br>While I would love it if Thorben decided to open source his software, I'm<br>already grateful to him for his contributions thus far.<br><br>If 10% of the people who use Asterisk gave back as much as he did, Asterisk
<br>would be soooooooooooooooooooooo much bigger/better etc.<br><br>If you head over to Thorben's site you'll notice he's also been working on a<br>pretty huge .net app for various monitoring/configuring/billing purposes which
<br>he has developed in close cooperation with the community at large.<br><br>You have to also remember that sometimes code feels like it needs cleaning up<br>before releasing as open source (especially if you take pride in your code).
<br><br>--<br>Cheers,<br><br>Matt Riddell<br>_______________________________________________<br><br><a href="http://www.sineapps.com/news.php">http://www.sineapps.com/news.php</a> (Daily Asterisk News - html)<br><a href="http://www.sineapps.com/rssfeed.php">
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