We have found that working WITH other Asterisk vendors is much more pleasant than working against them - especially when you all run into each other at a trade show.....<smile>
PaulH On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 11:04 -0400, Matthew Rubenstein wrote: > On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 08:39 -0500, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:02:53 -0600 > > From: Stephen Bosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Mushtaq Ahmed is out of the office. > > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > > <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > > > Wayne wrote: > > > I was wondering where 3Com were getting all the new ideas from for > > their > > > phone system ;-p > > > > > > Cats out of the bag now I guess :) > > > > The price of open source is that the commercial outfits are free to > > rip > > off ideas without paying for them. > > > > But hey -- competition is good, right? > > Competition is good, one benefit of OSS pressure on > commercial/proprietary competitors to improve their products which lead > investment. > > Cooperation is also good. Public knowledge that corporations are in the > community helps us know where to look for GPL software they secretly > use, or just how they get some valuable ideas from which they profit > (profit from us, usually). So it's easier to convince them to explicitly > feed back into the OSS. Either just user feedback, or actual investment > in testing, further development, or even GPL'ing their own proprietary > tech into the community. > > So now it's time that 3Com hears from us, and we hear back, that we're > all "coopeting" together. If they don't explicitly contribute soon, that > bad community attitude will be a clue for some examination of their > products for included GPL code and GPL violations, or just some bad > press for being merely "takers" with their $billion budgets. > > > > -Stephen- > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users