[Asterisk-biz] IPManager is now template based

[Danny Froberg]

Agreed.

And as Thorben says he might do dual versions, if he can make a living 
out of writing usefull apps for us all we'd be so lucky ;)

Now if he could just write some linux apps to i'd be hysterically happy 
*grin*

/Danny

smbPBX wrote:
> Matt:
> I am ALWAYS grateful to someone like Thorben and the people at 
> Coalescent Systems (The AMP People) who are making Asterisk easy-to-use 
> for someone like me who is a non-programmer. My contribution can come 
> from testing and sharing my experiences, and of course, cash donations.
> 
> Open-source model does work - Redhat is a large public company. Digium 
> is on its way to make money from support, from their business version of 
> Asterisk, and their ever expanding hardware offerings. And I am sure - 
> and hope - that AMP people do well.
> 
> In my business experience, I have seen many successful commercial 
> software go open-source after the fact,  just speed up the development 
> process. The almost-instant testing nad feedback is indeed very valuable 
> to the developer.
> 
> I, like you, would hope that Thorben would decide to go open source.
> 
> I do appreciate the dialog.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> On 8/15/05, *Matt Riddell* <matt.riddell at sineapps.com 
> <mailto:matt.riddell at sineapps.com>> wrote:
> 
>     smbPBX wrote:
>      > Matt:
>      > I am surprised at your response!!!
>      >
>      > Asterisk is open-source and that is why it so successful.
>      > So are AMP, Flash Opeartor Panel, and Asterisk at Home and they all
>     have a
>      > great following. If you listen to some great open-soutce software
>      > developers, they will tell you, among other things, that "making
>     changes
>      > requested by the community" is what makes the software better.
>      >
>      > Anyway, the question was about the plocy when the software is finally
>      > released. Just getting a free download of a software doesn't add
>     much value
>      > if you plan to use it for any serious purpose, especailly if it
>     is in early
>      > beta and doesn't work well.
> 
>     :)
> 
>     Maybe I mistook your intentions.
> 
>     I have no problem with Open Source, but it is a gift from the
>     developer to the
>     community not something you hassle someone about.
> 
>     While I would love it if Thorben decided to open source his
>     software, I'm
>     already grateful to him for his contributions thus far.
> 
>     If 10% of the people who use Asterisk gave back as much as he did,
>     Asterisk
>     would be soooooooooooooooooooooo much bigger/better etc.
> 
>     If you head over to Thorben's site you'll notice he's also been
>     working on a
>     pretty huge .net app for various monitoring/configuring/billing
>     purposes which
>     he has developed in close cooperation with the community at large.
> 
>     You have to also remember that sometimes code feels like it needs
>     cleaning up
>     before releasing as open source (especially if you take pride in
>     your code).
> 
>     --
>     Cheers,
> 
>     Matt Riddell
>     _______________________________________________
> 
>