[Asterisk-Dev] RFC: Moderating the Asterisk Mailing Lists

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:

> On January 7, 2005 10:51 am, Gregory Junker wrote:
> > Thank you for pointing out exactly what is wrong (specifically, your
> > attitude) with the majority of open-source projects.
> 
> While I agree that Alex's attitude is poor that is actually part of the
> beauty of open source and why it makes people money.
> 
> If you don't want to deal with primadonnas and socially awkward hackers,
> find yourself a consulting company to manage your asterisk installation.  
> They possess the thick skin and ability to interact with the community;
> you'll get a stable asterisk installation.
Precisely. I'm very very very much nicer to people who pay me money. That 
is, consulting clients or hosting customers. If you want free advice, you 
might get it, just don't expect me to be nice. :)

I think that's true of a lot of Asterisk developer/volunteers. 

-alex