[asterisk-users] no unicall on 1.4

[Anton Krall]

I agree with your last argument, exactly how it should be, Digium's free
asterisk version has no warranties, as it should be, if you want support,
you have to buy ... that's the way it works and should work. My complain is
regarding the issue that all related asterisk projects like unicall were too
spread around and usually no updated info is available, you can find bits
and pieces of info around about new releases (like in voip-info) but like
what happened with unicall and 1.4, nobody knew Steve was droping support
for it ... hell, even somebody just saw the news and asked about it...
that's what sometimes worries me, the owner of the project has the social
responsibility of updating the news and keeping the community in touch with
whats new, etc. for example SugarCRM, you can find everything on their page,
news, etc. in the case of Digium and Asterisk, information is scattered
around and sometimes its hard to find news about certain stuff, like unicall
and this case.

Anyway, we are drifting from the initial point which was to hope and support
further development of R2MFC on the asterisk community so I propose a bounty
to get Steve (sheesh, that's sounded like a hit bounty :)) I meant, a bounty
to convince Steve to help the community that still uses R2.... what do you
say?



|-----Original Message-----
|From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
|bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Moises Silva
|Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 10:58 PM
|To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
|Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] no unicall on 1.4
|
|On 1/5/07, Anton Krall <akrall at intruder.com.mx> wrote:
|> I think you are misunderstanding several points here Moises.
|May be
|
|> I do give Digium a break like you said, that's why you have options
|I dont understand this. How is related that you give Digium a break,
|with the fact
|that I have the option of use sangoma, Digium or clone hardware?
|
|> But from the programmers perspective, if some open source software gets
too
|> controlled by a company, then the synergy of open source is kind of
broken,
|MySQL is open source, but it is mainly ( only ) developed by the
|company itself, so please dont contribute to the widely missuse of the
|"open source" concept. Open Source does not mean free, Open Source
|does not mean anyone is welcomed to contribute code.
|
|> all projects have rules and what I meant is that Digium right now is too
|> controlling and that's why some programmers have decided to leave
asterisk
|Once again, the rules are not the main problem ( important factor
|though ), the main problem are the technical differences.
|
|> and pursue other projects in which they fell more comfortable and can
|> provide code in an easier manner.
|Good for them!, more options for everyone.
|
|> What I really have never liked is cases like what happened to unicall,
there
|> was no news or announcements, simply , in 1.4 it's not there anymore :)
|Anton, honestly, this is the part that "rings" into my head. Digium
|NEVER supported formally the development of Unicall, Unicall was NEVER
|part of the formal Asterisk release or addons, so it was NEVER there!.
|Unicall was only Steves project that happens to work with Asterisk. If
|I write a channel driver, as long as I dont sign and fax a disclaimer
|to Digium and is accepted, Digium does not have ANY responsibility
|about my code, in this case Steve's code. Even AFTER this, please
|execute this:
|
|asterisk -vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvr
|show warranty
|
|and if you have the free edition as I suppose you will see a BIG
|
|NO WARRANTY
|
|If you want more support BUY ( if you havent done already ) Asterisk
|bussiness/enterprise edition.
|
|Kind Regards and Good Look!
|
|Moises
|
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