[Asterisk-Dev] UK Caller ID patch and new CVS

[Gilmore, Gerry]

So which source is not available?

-- There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand
binary and those who don't.
 
Gerry Gilmore
Field Applications Engineer
Communications Sales Organization
Intel Corporation
http://www.intel.com
 


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Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 2:21 PM
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Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] UK Caller ID patch and new CVS


The true nature of open source is defined as the source being available
and open. Limiting the included code for the central offering based on
someone's will because he thinks it will mean he can sell more hardware
if he does not do so is not open source, its dictatorship. I find it
very sad that based on my understanding asterisk will not include code
that will help many people just because one person feels that to do so
would hurt his companies profit margins, when the code is no doubt
already available 
somewhere else or is needed by someone.

In the time I have watched this list even before I started posting I
have seen much of this; Keep up the dictatorship of the central code
repository and I guarantee you a branch of the source code will form
within the next 3-6 months. Not by me since I do not have the requisite
understanding, but I believe it important to say here that if the open
source community does not like the way digium or 'Mark' is doing things
it will simply make them unnecessary for the project to go forward by
cutting them out of the 
loop. And that perfectly acceptable from a legal standpoint since
asterisk is after all GPL.

I don't mean to be cruel or annoying, I'm stating facts as I see them.
If I am wrong or ignorant by all means tell me, but if it looks like
this to me, how do you think it looks to the thousands of other people
ghosting around this project and watching in the shadows as I once did?

Just a though.

On 22 Jul 2004 at 14:43, Chris Stenton wrote:

> Mark does not like the history buffer method  used. I think code will
be
> included for the the fxo module at some point but not for the X100P.
> 
> Chris.
> 



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