Agreed.
And as Thorben says he might do dual versions, if he can make a living
out of writing usefull apps for us all we'd be so lucky ;)
Now if he could just write some linux apps to i'd be hysterically happy
*grin*
/Danny
smbPBX wrote:
Matt:
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]
<mailto:[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).
--
Cheers,
Matt Riddell
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