On Wednesday 04 December 2013, CDR wrote: > Digium is 100% lost in the map. If they would come up with a Paid > version of Asterisk, one that would use the .NET framework in Windows, > something simple to install, they could go public on the product.
Why would they? They already have it working well enough under Linux. > Linux has a very steep learning curve. Only if your brain has been damaged by Windows. People who have never used Windows before tend to get on fairly well with Linux when using it for the first time. And Asterisk has a *way* steeper learning curve than Linux. > A Windows application that > would do exactly the same would be a home run. Note: I am a Linux > expert user, but it took me years to get here. Yes, it does. I've been using Linux since it was a curiosity on a single floppy disk, and I still have plenty to learn. But at least nobody is actively trying to conceal it from me. > And still, moving from > regular RHEL 6.0 to Fedora 20 (RHEL 7) is a pain in the neck. The .NET > framework and Windows server 2012 are miles away in terms of > friendliness and on equal footing on performance. Depends what you mean by "friendliness". Human-readable configuration files that I can edit with vi if I have to are friendlier than a drag-and-drool interface, by some measurements. > I don´t mean another > slow cygwin port, I man a native Asterisk for windows. In fact, I > would invest on the project if somebody wants to do it. Asterisk is Free software under the GPL. Anyone is welcome to package it for whatever platform they like. Nobody has bothered to do it because it's actually more effort to persuade Asterisk work on Windows' broken architecture, than it is to learn to use a Unix-like system. TL;DR: It's not our fault if you believe Microsoft's story that you're too stupid to use a real computer. It's certainly not our fault if you have let it come true. -- AJS Answers come *after* questions. -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
