I am ALWAYS grateful to someone like Thorben and the people at Coalescent Systems (The AMP People) who are making Asterisk easy-to-use for someone like me who is a non-programmer. My contribution can come from testing and sharing my experiences, and of course, cash donations.
Open-source model does work - Redhat is a large public company. Digium is on its way to make money from support, from their business version of Asterisk, and their ever expanding hardware offerings. And I am sure - and hope - that AMP people do well.
In my business experience, I have seen many successful commercial software go open-source after the fact, just speed up the development process. The almost-instant testing nad feedback is indeed very valuable to the developer.
I, like you, would hope that Thorben would decide to go open source.
I do appreciate the dialog.
Regards,
On 8/15/05, Matt Riddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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).
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Matt Riddell
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