[Asterisk-biz] Re: Asterisk Ffork - OpenPBX.org

[Peter Nixon]

On Sunday 09 October 2005 20:17, Reid Forrest wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > 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
> >
> > Matt Riddell wrote:
> > >I for one have built my business around a product Digium has given me.
> >
> > I'm
> >
> > >not about to turn around and stab them in the back.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > My Loyalties are to Mark and Digium all the way.
> >
> >
> > Jeremy McNamara
>
> 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.

In what way is OpenPBX working against Digium? A fair percentage of the new 
code in OpenPBX has either previously not been accepted by Digium or has not 
been "disclaimed" by the owners of that code for one reason or another. 
Putting these patches together in one place, using a new name (As per Mark's 
wishes) and continuing development in a direction that Digium currently isn't 
heading all do not harm Digium in any way. What these things DO create though 
is an alternative PBX which natively supports Digium hardware as well as 
providing features to end users that Digium is either unwilling or unable to 
provide in Asterisk. 

Hmmmm... Another piece of software that works with Digium's hardware but 
doesn't require any of Digium's resources to maintain, with the added 
advantage of having more features than the software that Digium already gives 
away for free as a loss leader to sell their hardware... Can someone please 
explain how this "works against Digium"?? 


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