[Asterisk-Users] CallerID

[Jay Milk]

Michelle,

you sent a single message containing suggestions to me on 11/02/2005.  
Your claim to have contacted me "many times" is clearly false.  Due to 
demands outside the asterisk world, I have not been monitoring the list, 
but I doubt that should have been necessary, considering that contact 
information and even a mailing list are available for cid-rewrite. 

Nobody at all contacted me about reverse lookup not working, and since 
the script has published was "in production" here for over a month as 
well as on many other servers, I have to question the validity of that 
claim.

My comments about spelling and commercial use are very productive.   
Much unlike you seem to, I take pride in the work I do, and being 
associated with something so poorly written as your changes to the 
readme is an embarrassment to both of parties.  Additionally, 
programming is a very exact process, and the quality of your 
documentation betrays your ability.  I do maintain that you are in fact 
misleading potential downloaders on the origin of the script.  You have 
removed contact information and effectively taken credit for this work. 

You furthermore are offering paid support, which qualifies as 
"commercial use" and you have neither asked for nor been granted 
permission for commercial use of my intellectual property.

Expect no help or cooperation from me in integrating your changes -- 
your changes are hacks at best, and a far cry from the properly 
architected changes I have planned and partially integrated in my 
production script.

In the meantime, either remove the download of this bastardized script 
from your site, or add full contact information back into the readme 
file and offer FREE support for it.  Please comply within 72 hours of 
receipt of this message.

Regards,
-- Jay Milk

Technical Support wrote:
> Jay,
>
> I contacted you many times regarding the script, whether you planned to
> update it, suggestions for features, etc.  You did not respond to any of my
> later emails.  Similarly, there was discussion between list members
> regarding whether this script was orphaned after changes to 411.com made the
> reverse lookup non-functional - for a long time.  I assumed responsibility
> for updating the script as a courtesy to Asterisk users.
>
> Your comments about spelling, resale, etc. are abrasive, unproductive, and
> misleading.  Not only is the script available without charge on the web
> site, credit to you remains with the script - in fact even the download link
> of the web site gives you credit!  And of course, why would I update the
> script and then encourage users to download an older version from another
> site?
>
> If you have time to dedicate to the cid_rewrite project terrific - I would
> rather see one stream benefit all users.  Let's work to integrate changes
> going forward.  If you would prefer not to, I would be pleased to rename the
> script so that there is no confusion.
>
> Regards,
> Michelle
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Milk [mailto:ast-users at skimmilk.net] 
> Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 1:05 AM
> To: Technical Support; Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial
> Discussion; Michael Stahl
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] CallerID
>
> Michelle,
>
> 1. Courtesy would suggest that you would have contacted the author of the
> script (me) to ask permission to modify this and host it elsewhere. 
> 2. What possessed you to remove ALL credits and original download location
> from the readme file?  Are you trying to pawn other people's work off as
> yours?
> 3. It's not exactly smart to continue someone else's versioning scheme if
> you're intending to make a "fork". 
> 4. Your spelling is atrocious.
> 5. The script is not orphaned, even though you seem to imply this in the
> readme file.
>
> Since you are selling support for this script, that qualifies as commercial
> use and is expressly prohibited by the micro-license included in the
> original script.  Please remove it from your download page until you have
> made arrangements for further distribution with me.  I'm utterly amazed at
> the bad form I see here.
>
> Downloads of the original script are available here:
> http://www.muware.com/asterisk/
>
> The script is alive and working well, and I've made various enhancements to
> user-requests in the recent past.
>
> -- JM
>
>
> Technical Support wrote:
>   
>> Miles,
>>
>> You can also download cid_rewrite from www.generationd.com  This PHP 
>> script looks up the phone numbers in a local MySQL table, and/or uses 
>> reverse 411 on the web to lookup the name, and/or more options.
>>
>> Michelle
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
>> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
>> Alejandro Vargas
>> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 4:07 AM
>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] CallerID
>>
>> 2006/4/7, Miles Scruggs <asterisk at garnetweb.com>:
>>   
>>     
>>> Could you give me an example code of how this would work, and how to 
>>> setup the database, I'm pretty new and while what you have written 
>>> makes sense, and sounds like a good plan I'm not sure I can implement it.
>>>     
>>>       
>> I'm using my own agi-bin for "patching" callerid and adding the name 
>> if the number is found in a table (a csv that is mantained with a 
>> spreadsheet), it adds the name taken from this table. Then you can see 
>> the name in the display of the phones.
>>
>> --
>> Alejandro Vargas
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