On Wednesday 25 May 2011 9:32:27 pm Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: > On Wednesday 25 May 2011, A. Mani wrote: > > "Having suspended disbelief for as long as I could, my ability to > > take Microsoft at their word over Skype was shattered yesterday on > > hearing the announcement by Digium, sponsors of the widely-used > > Asterisk VoIP project, that they have been told they can no longer > > sell their Asterisk-Skype interaction module after July 26. That > > means it will become impossible for this VoIP PBX to connect to > > Skype. " > > > > http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2011/05/a-liberating-betr > > ayal/index.htm > > > > 'opencore' is bad. > > Yes, open core is bad. And not just because a proprietary company has > withdrawn the facility to embed a proprietary product using proprietary > protocols into a FOSS package, but in general. If you choose > proprietary products and proprietary protocols you stand the chance of > losing access to them some day.
You are guaranteed to lose access. It is merely a matter of time. > Better to shun them from the outset and > select openness, even if it means reduced functionality in the > beginning. +1 M$ is a toxic dump company. _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
