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> I find myself in the unusual position of agreeing with Jeremy here. :) (no
> offense intended, Jeremy.) I don't want to get into legalities or dive into
> this flame war, but I think that Digium has done the world a great service
> by developing, funding, and releasing Asterisk. I think they deserve to
> profit from their work, and I will support them. If some on this list don't
> agree with Digium's vision of Asterisk's future, then they should
> contribute code and publicly debate their positions. Working against Digium
> IMHO is counter productive, and discourages future open source development.
In what way is OpenPBX working against Digium? A fair percentage of the new
code in OpenPBX has either previously not been accepted by Digium or has not
been "disclaimed" by the owners of that code for one reason or another.
Putting these patches together in one place, using a new name (As per Mark's
wishes) and continuing development in a direction that Digium currently isn't
heading all do not harm Digium in any way. What these things DO create though
is an alternative PBX which natively supports Digium hardware as well as
providing features to end users that Digium is either unwilling or unable to
provide in Asterisk.
Hmmmm... Another piece of software that works with Digium's hardware but
doesn't require any of Digium's resources to maintain, with the added
advantage of having more features than the software that Digium already gives
away for free as a loss leader to sell their hardware... Can someone please
explain how this "works against Digium"??
I think that in order to have a productive discussion on this you have to at least look at reality. Of course there is a large potential to hurt asterisk. The question is whether openpbx will add more value then it takes away. In order to add value it has to offer something that asterisk doesn't have and attract a user base. If you put a lot of time into openpbx but very few people use it, then it's still a net loss to asterisk as well as those who spent time on openpbx.
I think the main thing that hurts openpbx is that they have a problem with ABE and the contribution policies. Most people just don't see it that way, and it's not in itself a good reason to fork. I also doubt that the fork would have happened if that issue was not present.
Overall, I just don't trust the judgement of the people behind openpbx.. I don't think they forked for the right reasons and I don't think they have a grasp of what it takes to make a successfull fork. And if it isn't successfull, then it helps no one at the possible expense of a lot of other people. One good thing it might do is bring about some good discussion on what Digium could do better, but so far I haven't see much of the conversation go in that direction.
Chris
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