[asterisk-users] Mark Spencer: Digium is Growing Up (VONMAG)

[shadowym]

Sorry but your not going to drag me into another one of these "you
ungrateful bastard" type arguments.  If you want to take the pepsi challenge
as to who contributes how much in what way then email me offline with your
list and I'll send you mine!

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Capouch [mailto:brianc at palaver.net] 
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 3:01 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Mark Spencer: Digium is Growing Up (VONMAG)

shadowym wrote:
> Yes thank you for reminding me it is open source.  Thank you for reminding
> me people can write their own code for it.
> 
> I'll get right on rewriting the entire sip code.  Should only take me a
few
> hours.  Including a couple hours to learn how to write c code.  How hard
can
> it be!
> 

I can't tell whether you're intending to prove the point that was being 
made, or trying to be sarcastic.  Knowing your posting history, I'll 
assume the latter.

But in case you're serious, and you really do believe the coders owe you 
something, here's another translation of the situation:

If you code, if you contribute to the coding effort by intense testing 
and/or filing bug reports, if you carry Red Bull to the programmers 
during hacking sessions, etc., then--in the vernacular of the Church of 
the Subgenius--you buy slack.

And once you have slack, you can say, "Let's do this," or "Let's do 
that," and the developers will consider it and--maybe--implement it.

When, instead, you are 100% slack-free and have been noted before 
nipping nasty mots at the hands that feed you code, the chances of 
having your tart remarks about SLA taken seriously are pretty slim.

But, and here's  the point: It's Open Source.  If the developers look 
the other way when you ask for something, if they don't answer your 
emails, if they don't drop everything when you demand something and do 
what you want,

FORK IT!  Take the code THEY they wrote and do with it what you will.

It's free.

b.

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