On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 18:04 -0400, Mike wrote: > >> . close source and we own the code. > You are no better then Microsoft.
Lets boycott hardware based SIP phone adapters while we are at it! They paid people to write firmware in the device as well as design the hardware the devices use. They must be evil for paying people to create a product and then not making that product totally open! I dont see a problem if he wants to own what he pays for? The closed source parts would apply only to the AGI that does this, not to asterisk as a whole. I enjoy cheap computers, if it were not for microsoft creating windows, making computers easier to use for everyone, the mass production and highly competitive hardware market would not exist. If that didnt happen the $300 computer of today would likely not exist, and if it did it would cost more like computers did 20 years ago, $2000+ for a bare system. As for the other comment about 'patent fight' if its not patented there would be no fight and it would be hard to have any serious patent on paging (calling multiple extensions in a group which auto answer on speaker phone or equiv when a given extension is dialed). I dont think its bad that people want to keep ownership and control over what they pay to create. Nothing is preventing someone from writing a open version of this, only if you want the $200 he is offering then he wants to own the code. Want to do it for free then you can do what you want with the code. I have worked for over 10 years in the software development industry and during that time I was paid to write code which the company paying me owned. I dont think they are wrong for claiming ownership since it was their money that caused it to happen. This does not make me nor the companies I worked for evil, if it did the same could be said about any commercial enterprise, whether or not its the hardware makers who pay people to design the systems, write the firmware, or even sell sip based hardware phones. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com UK +44 870 340 4605 Germany +49 801 777 555 3402 US +1 360 207 0479 or +1 516 687 5200 FreeWorldDialup: 635378
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