Again, let Stallman call out nasal demons against whoever he wants. Meanwhile, I think Digium should be able to do whatever they want with code they've made, or code disclaimed to them.
Joe, I think everyone appreciates the fact that you don't like the way Digium handles the licensing and disclaimers.
I would like to see you say out loud, just once, that those of us who know all of that and disclaim our work to Digium are not necessarily idiotic boobs who don't know what we're doing.
Digium took a huge risk in making their primary intellectual property Open Source. They didn't have to; this revolutionary system may or may not have taken off like it has, had it been proprietary. But at the very least there is a reasonable chance that it would have succeeded as such and made them a lot of money.
It tires me to read your tirades and consider that you really don't think the rest of us are smart enough to catch Digium's "trick" that bothers you so badly.
Things are set up the way they are, as I understand it, so that first, Mark gets the final say, totally, as to what is "true Asterisk" and what is not. Second, it allows them the freedom to do side things with Asterisk--yes, with my code and your code and everyone else's code too--in order to make a living, and validate the thought that doing Asterisk as Open Source could be done in a way that Digium could still make some money on it.
IMO we are perched at the very beginning of the revolution that Asterisk will bring to telephony. I don't mind watching the arguments made about the minutiae of the GPL; I *really* mind seeing Mark's and Digium's motives impugned.
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