[Asterisk-Dev] Bug Tracker / Feature Requests (my take)

[Brian Capouch]

dking at pimpsoft.com wrote:
> There would be more bugs fixed if Asterisk development was actually 
> open in the true nature of open source instead of done on a nopay-for-
> work-done payscale for digiums benefit with digium owning every 
> body’s hard work.
> 

This is the "respect" you allude to down below?

> 
> Digium sells the software and is basically a software company much 
> like Microsoft or Sun is since its business model of selling software 
> for hardware is basically the same. This turns allot of people away 
> and hurts the Asterisk Open source development community.
> 

Um, Digium has open-sourced the software, essentially giving it away. 
There is also a minor multi-billion-dollar degree of difference between 
Digium and Microsoft/Sun.

Asterisk is Digium's primary product and obvious crown jewel.  It was 
thus a huge risk for them to open-source the code the way they did. 
This is the primary reason your "call to arms" seems to consistently 
fall on deaf ears on this list.

> 
> Many people are willing to do that only if they know they are 
> farthing something bigger then themselves, 
> 

*Exactly* why Asterisk has grown so rapidly; most of us (correctly) know 
that we're bringing something novel and revolutionary to the world. 
Your implication that nobody is contributing to Asterisk because Digium 
is greedy couldn't be much farther from the truth.

> 
> Please no flames, I was respectful.
> 

In the most marginal sense that could be imagined.

I don't know quite what your agenda is, but I suspect you're going to 
find a very, very limited amount of support for it here, contrasted with 
a lot of acrimony that your posts generate because they are so openly 
suspicious of Digium's (and thus Mark's) motives.

I want to say go away, but I'm waaay too polite for that.

B.