[Asterisk-Dev] voicemail message number limits

[dking at pimpsoft.com]

On 25 Jul 2004 at 11:21, Steve wrote:

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> On Saturday 24 July 2004 09:13 pm, dking at pimpsoft.com wrote:
> > But that is not the only reason, is it?
> >
> > Under the same thought signing away your rights to the work lets
> > digum to take asterisk out of gpl at will, perhaps after the open
> > source community has made it a viable and over all profitable
> > software platform?
> >
> > I think the licensing is just a ruse to steal the software in a legal
> > way at some future date while allowing them to keep a public domain
> > source branch they can do as they please with, IMHO.
> 
> And if he did, we could take the last GPL version and continue the development 
> without Digium.
> 
> Guess what, we would not support his efforts if he decided to do that. He'd 
> most likely loose the whole developer community. Which also does all this 
> testing. This makes no practical sense...

Nether did SCO's actions and look at them. Greed is a big Motivator and I hate the thought of it hurting the opensource community.

> I can also with great certainty talk for all of us, when I say that we don't 
> take your accusations of Mark and Digium, seriously. You also loose all your 
> credibility because of it. You walked into the world of Asterisk and laid 
> claims of gross impropriety, don't expect us to now think very well of You.

I started this thread/discussion in an attempt to help; IF you see me 
as a idiot I cant stop you but in the end we all have are own ways of 
doing things. Mine is to call people publicly so that the problem can 
not be swept under the rug, gets resolved, and makes the open source 
community as a whole stronger. I'm really a friend of the project, I 
just see a legal problem that can bite it in the future and I wanted 
everyone to know in case they want to protect themselves, not unlike 
what I do as my day job with security exploits and system 
administration.  Sometimes making allot fo noise is the only way to 
get peoples attention and since you all have a vested interest and 
connection with this project I knew your all going to not like what I 
am saying and not be open minded and mature about things to the 
extent I would have liked.
 
> Because unlike you, we have worked with Mark and his company for years, and 
> apparently have a better understanding of the freedoms of the GPL. We will 
> also write off your notion of evil under the cupboard, and happily continue 
> developing.

So be it. But when the time comes you can think about me and hold no 
blame, since I tried as best I could to help.

> - -- 
> Steve Szmidt
> 
> "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve
> neither liberty nor safety."
>                                 Benjamin Franklin
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