Good points all around and healthy discussion IMHO. I have found in my 2 years of working with Asterisk and open source in general is you have to approach it a bit differently than commercial closed source stuff. You gotta put in the time to throughly test a specific version to make sure it does what you need it to do. Usually a version that has been out for awhile so that it has lot's of users contributing lot's technical knowledge and is known to not have any major gotcha's in it. Never ever cutting edge releases IMHO.
-----Original Message----- From: Peter Bowyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 2:09 PM To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Recent REMOTE CRASH BUG On 03/03/07, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > EXACTLY MY POINT!!! There shouldn't be that many bugs. Look at QMail for > an example of ONE PERSON who is writing software that is secure and > bug free as well as free and open source. And totally devoid of any new functionality in.... maybe 8 years? Actually I just went to look, it's 9 years. DJB isn't writing it, and hasn't done since 1998. All the new functionality QMail has acquired since then has been by way of a tangled web of third-party patches, DJB is an excellent theorist, and has written very tight and bug-free code. It has an admirable security record. It is also amost completely comment-free, and not maintained in any way at all. If you want Asterisk to stay still for 9 years, he's definitely your man. Me, I'd prefer it to keep up with the times. The consequence of the 'release early and often' principle of Open Source development is that stability isn't always as good as it might be. You pay your money and take your choice. And as with any Open Source project, we're all part of the team. Peter -- Peter Bowyer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
