On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 02:58:31PM -0400, Steve Totaro wrote: > I am a user and a high level integrator, none of what you mention > applies to me. Maybe in a lab if I had time...
If you are a high-level integrator, then it seems to me you make direct profit off the backs of the developers you decline to support. > I run multi million dollar call centers and very demanding PBXs, it is > not in customer's best interest to run buggy code, therefore it is > also not in my best interest. Rockwell Galaxy's are great stuff. > It is a similar relationship to corporations and their stockholders, > the corp must do what is in the best interest of the shareholder. I > like to call it good business, none of this rebooting daily, weekly, > monthly crap. > > Maybe if you lost $26k/hr due to outages, you might feel differently.... Yup. And if I had lots of outages and that was an issue, I might run a Galaxy and pay the price. But in fact, not such a problem. > Asterisk is a loss leader for the hardware (cards, appliances, > support, ABE) that is why it is free. Otherwise Asterisk would be > vaporware. Well, most of our cards are Sangomas, actually. > Anyways, Asterisk has many costs but I guess you never took Econ 101 > or above in college. Clearly, *you* failed reading comprehension. :-) My entire point was that there are many different costs -- and that you were shirking the most important one I could see. > I have brought Asterisk to the attention of CSC, The US State Dept, > large corporations, and foreign governments, is that some form of > contribution to the community? I think promotion is a full time job > in some outfits. Sure. Everyone contributes something different. And thanks. :-) > By the way, I use the best components to build my systems and my > consulting fee is pretty nice, so you are right, nothing is free. See? We're in violent agreement. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Joseph Stalin) _______________________________________________ -- 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
