[Asterisk-Users] some success with linux 2.6 and wcfxo

[Steve Underwood]

Tristan 'Minty' Colgate wrote:

>Hi,
>
>  My apologies for those on the channel who may take offense to this, atleast
>the ones to whom it was not aimed, but the fact is that after making a simple
>enquiry on the IRC channel I was in absolute shock...
>
>  I asked one simple question, are there any known issues with the zaptel
>modules on 2.6, was given some very sensible advice to upgrade my mod utils,
>which I did. I asked if anyone had any other ideas, at which point things got
>pretty abusive.
>
>  Now the point is that without evening establishing if I was just wasting time
>hassling developers into fixing my "problems" for me (I've been on the end of
>enough of that recently to know how annoying it is), I was being excluded from
>evening helping out. That is rather an odd attitude for advocates of an open
>source project to express.
>
>  I've been following asterisk developement for a long time, and playing with
>it at home. Recently I have been able to deploy it in a commerial VoIP (SIP)
>services that I have developed for a client. I am consequently therefore
>exteremely greatful to *, and cosider it not just a duty, but also an honour to
>be able to give something back.
>
>  In 6 years of writing and contributing to Free Software project, I have
>simply never come across the attitude that I met on that channel. And
>regardless of the rights or wrongs of it, it is the phrase "#asterisk" I am
>always going to remember for it, not the specific people involved.
>
>  By all means dismiss me as an arrogant arse, a prima donna, or whatever else
>you care to think of. I meant nothing more by that statement than good old
>fashioned sarcasm.
>  
>
That doesn't sound like the #asterisk channel. Severe teasing is normal. 
Outright abuse is not.

Regards,
Steve