On the other hand, the guy could just be using his work e-mail for personal interests.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matthew Rubenstein</b> <<a href="mailto:email@mattruby.com">
email@mattruby.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 08:39 -0500,<br><a href="mailto:asterisk-users-request@lists.digium.com">
asterisk-users-request@lists.digium.com</a> wrote:<br>> Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:02:53 -0600<br>> From: Stephen Bosch <<a href="mailto:posting@vodacomm.ca">posting@vodacomm.ca</a>><br>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Mushtaq Ahmed is out of the office.
<br>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion<br>> <<a href="mailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com">asterisk-users@lists.digium.com</a>><br>> Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:468E83CD.1070703@vodacomm.ca">
468E83CD.1070703@vodacomm.ca</a>><br>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1<br>><br>> Wayne wrote:<br>> > I was wondering where 3Com were getting all the new ideas from for<br>> their<br>> > phone system ;-p
<br>> ><br>> > Cats out of the bag now I guess :)<br>><br>> The price of open source is that the commercial outfits are free to<br>> rip<br>> off ideas without paying for them.<br>><br>> But hey -- competition is good, right?
<br><br> Competition is good, one benefit of OSS pressure on<br>commercial/proprietary competitors to improve their products which lead<br>investment.<br><br> Cooperation is also good. Public knowledge that corporations are in the
<br>community helps us know where to look for GPL software they secretly<br>use, or just how they get some valuable ideas from which they profit<br>(profit from us, usually). So it's easier to convince them to explicitly
<br>feed back into the OSS. Either just user feedback, or actual investment<br>in testing, further development, or even GPL'ing their own proprietary<br>tech into the community.<br><br> So now it's time that 3Com hears from us, and we hear back, that we're
<br>all "coopeting" together. If they don't explicitly contribute soon, that<br>bad community attitude will be a clue for some examination of their<br>products for included GPL code and GPL violations, or just some bad
<br>press for being merely "takers" with their $billion budgets.<br><br><br>> -Stephen-<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>--Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by <a href="http://www.api-digital.com--">
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