[asterisk-users] Re: Ever donate Software to Digium? If you didyour afool.

[Don]

There is no doubt Asterisk is a nice peiece of software...and it does a nice 
job on our prepaid/postpaid apps...
But it will need to evolve even more quickly to keep up with what freeswitch 
will have within the next few months...unless they plan to stay mainly under 
the idea of relatively small business use. Thread issues are virtually non 
existant in freeswitch. And Digium has fallen short with their hardware 
where Sangoma has picked up the ball and ran with it. I am not trashing 
Digium by the way...I just see a lot of changes they will need to make for 
the future if they want to stay on top of that which they have basically 
invented. Sangoma for instance...their support seems phenominal...Digium's 
on the other hand...I have talked to people they that seem to know less 
about asterisk than I do...and that just shouldn't be the case.
It happens everywhere though...applications, games, automobiles, etc...Take 
an example of the gaming industry verant basically put MMORPG games on the 
map...but they didn't evolve and Everquest and Everquest 2 fell to the 
wayside of newer more creative ideas.
It's hard to stay on top in the computer world.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gonzalo Servat" <gservat at gmail.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 4:26 PM
Subject: [asterisk-users] Re: Ever donate Software to Digium? If you didyour 
afool.


> On 8/9/06, Yaakov Menken <menken at capalon.com> wrote:
>> I really don't understand the complaint. Fonality gets a $5 mil.
>> investment for building its own system on top of Asterisk -- no
>> complaint. But Mark & Co. can't get VC for their own business /
>> enterprise / support architecture?
>>
>> Everything that "we-all" is contributing is part of the open source
>> Asterisk system, which Mark dreamed up and which continues to be an
>> unbelievably exciting piece of software.
>>
>> One day soon I hope programmers who work for me will contribute to the
>> code base. The fact that Digium just got $13.7 mil. to keep doing what
>> they're doing merely ensures that we who use the open-source base will
>> all be benefiting from a stable and growing team of professionals
>> pushing the project forward.
>>
>> Congrats, Digium. I for one am delighted, and look forward to joining
>> the "fools."
>
> The original post must be the biggest troll in history.
>
> I think all of us are thankful for having Asterisk. Infact, I'm glad
> that Digium is getting good $$ out of it (apart from all the hardware
> sales) since many of us can't afford to pay Mark the sort of money he
> deserves for his time spent writing Asterisk. I know Asterisk has
> earned me a few bucks from the various installations I've done, so I'm
> happy to hear this bit of news.
>
> Of course, Asterisk is a community-supported project so my thanks also
> goes to all the people that have made it what it is today. Maybe one
> day soon I will be able to contribute to it (apart from a few Wiki
> additions I've done).
>
> Cheers,
> Gonzalo
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