[asterisk-users] Corporate Feedback to OSS (was: Re: Mushtaq Ahmed is out of the office.)

[Paul Hales]

We have found that working WITH other Asterisk vendors is much more
pleasant than working against them - especially when you all run into
each other at a trade show.....<smile>

PaulH


On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 11:04 -0400, Matthew Rubenstein wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 08:39 -0500,
> asterisk-users-request at lists.digium.com wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:02:53 -0600
> > From: Stephen Bosch <posting at vodacomm.ca>
> > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Mushtaq Ahmed is out of the office.
> > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> >         <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> > Message-ID: <468E83CD.1070703 at vodacomm.ca>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> > 
> > Wayne wrote:
> > > I was wondering where 3Com were getting all the new ideas from for
> > their 
> > > phone system ;-p
> > > 
> > > Cats out of the bag now I guess :)
> > 
> > The price of open source is that the commercial outfits are free to
> > rip
> > off ideas without paying for them.
> > 
> > But hey -- competition is good, right?
> 
> 	Competition is good, one benefit of OSS pressure on
> commercial/proprietary competitors to improve their products which lead
> investment.
> 
> 	Cooperation is also good. Public knowledge that corporations are in the
> community helps us know where to look for GPL software they secretly
> use, or just how they get some valuable ideas from which they profit
> (profit from us, usually). So it's easier to convince them to explicitly
> feed back into the OSS. Either just user feedback, or actual investment
> in testing, further development, or even GPL'ing their own proprietary
> tech into the community.
> 
> 	So now it's time that 3Com hears from us, and we hear back, that we're
> all "coopeting" together. If they don't explicitly contribute soon, that
> bad community attitude will be a clue for some examination of their
> products for included GPL code and GPL violations, or just some bad
> press for being merely "takers" with their $billion budgets.
> 
> 
> > -Stephen-
> 
> 
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