[Asterisk-biz] Asterisk Ffork - OpenPBX.org

[Paul]

Reid Forrest wrote:

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>>From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-biz-
>>bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy McNamara
>>Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 11:52 AM
>>To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
>>Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] Asterisk Ffork - OpenPBX.org
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>>Matt Riddell wrote:
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>>>I for one have built my business around a product Digium has given me.
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>>I'm
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>>>not about to turn around and stab them in the back.
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>>RIGHT ON!   None of these bastards would have the power of Asterisk to
>>fork if Digium hadn't gave it to the world in the first place.
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>>My Loyalties are to Mark and Digium all the way.
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>>Jeremy McNamara
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>I find myself in the unusual position of agreeing with Jeremy here. :) (no
>offense intended, Jeremy.) I don't want to get into legalities or dive into
>this flame war, but I think that Digium has done the world a great service by
>developing, funding, and releasing Asterisk. I think they deserve to profit
>from their work, and I will support them. If some on this list don't agree
>with Digium's vision of Asterisk's future, then they should contribute code
>and publicly debate their positions. Working against Digium IMHO is counter
>productive, and discourages future open source development.
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>Reid
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At this point in time I doubt that Digium will lose any profit from the 
efforts of any asterisk fork group.

I also doubt that people who can profit from asterisk will be switching 
to a forked asterisk. Digium can address the shortcomings a lot faster 
than any new project. All they have to do is give that a little more 
priority and the fork will lose whatever little bit of momentum it now has.