[Asterisk-Users] Re: Re: Digium Website Update: Asterisk Business Edition

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On Saturday 11 June 2005 16:10, trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com wrote:
> I have seen more people on this list freak out if people but non digium
> hardware to run their asterisk box (usually at a substantial price
> discount).  People on this list have actually freaked out that someone
> would dare buy a cheaper card (like the x100ps for example, which afaik
> digium doeesnt sell anymore, granted this was an older thread) and not
> support digium (there was a similar rant over using voice modems instead
> of an x100p way back when).

Let's get it straight WHY this was the case (at least for me)

- Guy buys $5 winmodem and tries using it
- Guy has INSANE-O amounts of problems with echo and general weirdness
- Guy refuses to listen to the list to TRY KNOWN HARDWARE before optimizing
- Guy insists that it's Asterisk that sucks

At least for me, THIS is why I "freaked out" on people for buying the clone 
cards.  Once you know what you're doing and what can cause problems and you 
have a good grasp on the fundamentals, buy any damn thing you want because 
you will have the experience and knowledge to determine the proper cause of 
the issue rather than bitch and moan about how asterisk sucks and it doesn't 
work and nobody wants to help.

> forming of FSF to solicit donations when people stopped paying $150 for
> a tape of emacs, and now the proposed GPL 3.0 to charge corporate users
> of GPL code who dont acutally distro a product (like google and ebay for
> example).

Totally OT for this OT thread but I think that the GPL3 will fail; fall flat 
on its face.

> Personally I dont see a problem with any of this.  If digium makes it
> too difficult to do stuff asterisk *can* be forked unless that is
> forbidden (because its GPL I didnt bother to look at forking issues

Nope you can fork it, and in fact there have been several forks but AFAIK 
they've all died out due to lack of mindshare.

-A.