> I agree with Russell's initial assessment; Matt's phrasing, if not his > intent, emanated from the land of the troll. . . if for no other reason > than the implication that Digium is solely responsible for the > development of the product. >
I want to reply to this.... my initial comments were not trolls. I think, however, my initial comments reflect what alot of the asterisk community is experiencing. WE support asterisk for people. WE also sell phone systems based somewhat around the asterisk platform. WE run several asterisk softswitches to support our VoIP infrastructure. That being said, we have several folks who know asterisk almost like the back of.. something (does anyone really know what the back of their hand looks like?). It's rather embarrassing for us to have to say to a client.. well it looks like the version of asterisk you loaded has a bunch of bugs.. why don't you roll it back to this version? CLIENT: But but.. it's the newest, shouldn't it work? It just reflects poorly on Digium/Asterisk in general. Keeping in mind that asterisk is free.... let's think about what happens when the first time user goes to use asterisk. If it happens to be one of these versions with a fairly decent bug in it, their experience of Digium/asterisk is going to be bad, yea they may even go to a competitor (blah this asterisk @[EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't work, the CFO was right, let's get a Cisco CM system). While Asterisk is released free, let us not forget that Digium makes money off of ABE (and I'd be willing to bet that many who have purchased ABE started out on the free version.. remember first impressions are everything). Digium also makes money off of the FXO/FXS/PRI cards, which you really wouldn't use unless you were running asterisk. So in this case, while Asterisk IS free, it is both a first impression to people who download it, as well as a money source as people require a PSTN interface for their free asterisk version. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
