[Asterisk-Users] SysMaster and GPL Violation

[Tom Lahti]

>Joe, I think everyone appreciates the fact that you don't like the way 
>Digium handles the licensing and disclaimers.

Brian, haven't you guessed by now that Joe is crusade-happy?  Just look at 
the "top posting" thread and gaze in awe upon the sheer mass of his posts 
on the subject.  If I were a professional psychiatrist I would have 
additional comments...

[snip]

>it allows them the freedom to do side things with Asterisk--yes, with my 
>code and your code and everyone else's code too--in order to make a 
>living, and validate the thought that doing Asterisk as Open Source could 
>be done in a way that Digium could still make some money on it.

It is in fact a trade: Brian etc. contribute code and sign it over, and in 
return everyone gets to use Mark's product free of monetary charge.

>IMO we are perched at the very beginning of the revolution that Asterisk 
>will bring to telephony.  I don't mind watching the arguments made about 
>the minutiae of the GPL; I *really* mind seeing Mark's and Digium's 
>motives impugned.

If Digium's main purpose for existing is not "to make money", then why on 
earth would Mark create the company in the first place?  It's a hellofa lot 
of work to do for kicks. If anyone were that self-sacrificial he probably 
would have already committed suicide to avoid the possibility of anyone 
suffocating because of the oxygen he himself breathed, long before he 
started a company to (gasp!) make money.


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Tom