[asterisk-users] ISPBX Announces COGOBLUE Interface andPBX Appliances

[John Signorello]

My comments were in no way an indictment of "free" software.
Yes,, we use Asterisk and it is fantastic.
Yes , we use Linux.and it is fantastic.

I pay to use UltraEdit as my text editor.
I like it better than the "free" ones that are out.

Does suggesting that some proprietary software has
features whose benefits outweigh some of the "free" ones
mean I an denigrating all "free" software??????

The answer is NO.

Do you load every distribution of Linux on your machine?
No, you use the distribution that has the features you like and need.
If you had to pay $10 for your favorite distro, would you stop using it?
Probably not.
If you had to pay $100 for your distro, would you stop using it?
Hard to say, you would probably weigh the relative benefits of the $100 
distro versus
the free ones. If the $100 distro had features, whose benefits (to you) 
exceeded those of the free ones,
you might buy it. Is that analysis an indictment of all "free" software?

Of course not.





Kristian Kielhofner wrote:
> On 4/3/08, John Signorello <jsignorello at ispbx.com> wrote:
>   
>>  John:
>>
>>  CogoBlue is a proprietary software package written by ISPBX.
>>  It is not open source. It is currently only available on ISPBX hardware.
>>     
>
> ISPBX hardware uses Asterisk, probably Linux, and probably dozens (if
> not more) FOSS applications, libraries, etc.
>
>   
>>  Check out CogoBlue, once you see what a configuration package should be,
>>  you may have to reassess what  that "free" software is really costing you.
>>
>>     
>
>   You're new here.
>
>   This is extremely offensive.  "Free" software gave you and your
> company a product (ISPBX) and a market (CogoBlue).  Where would you be
> without the "free" software projects (Asterisk, Linux, etc) ispbx
> uses?  Where would you be without the Asterisk community (hint - you
> wouldn't have a market for CogoBlue).  I'm usually not one to feed the
> trolls but this comment is over the top.
>
>