smbPBX wrote: > Matt: > I am surprised at your response!!! > > Asterisk is open-source and that is why it so successful. > So are AMP, Flash Opeartor Panel, and [EMAIL PROTECTED] and they all have a > great following. If you listen to some great open-soutce software > developers, they will tell you, among other things, that "making changes > requested by the community" is what makes the software better. > > Anyway, the question was about the plocy when the software is finally > released. Just getting a free download of a software doesn't add much value > if you plan to use it for any serious purpose, especailly if it is in early > beta and doesn't work well.
:) Maybe I mistook your intentions. I have no problem with Open Source, but it is a gift from the developer to the community not something you hassle someone about. While I would love it if Thorben decided to open source his software, I'm already grateful to him for his contributions thus far. If 10% of the people who use Asterisk gave back as much as he did, Asterisk would be soooooooooooooooooooooo much bigger/better etc. If you head over to Thorben's site you'll notice he's also been working on a pretty huge .net app for various monitoring/configuring/billing purposes which he has developed in close cooperation with the community at large. You have to also remember that sometimes code feels like it needs cleaning up before releasing as open source (especially if you take pride in your code). -- Cheers, Matt Riddell _______________________________________________ http://www.sineapps.com/news.php (Daily Asterisk News - html) http://www.sineapps.com/rssfeed.php (Daily Asterisk News - rss) _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Biz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
