On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:43 PM, vip killa <vipki...@gmail.com> wrote: > The majority of open source projects out are NOT run by commercial > institutions...
Postfix kicks butt. But only because IBM paid for development, for a long number of years, and because they hired somebody who had a really good idea how to improve Sendmail. Asterisk kicks butt. It just does, even if you can't get your silly faxing edge case to work, because Digium paid for development, for a long number of years. There are also people who come along, and because the source is available, fix a particular bug that annoyed them, or added a feature they personally wanted. T.38 has a boatload of problems, and most of those problems are because people who aren't employed by Digium did not read the specs, or they did read the specs, but felt like they had to violate the specs to get their code to work with a different broken T.38 stack. I've personally fixed problems with asterisk, and I found my code contribution accepted. Perhaps you've submitted patches the bug tracker? We eagerly anticipate your voluntary code contributions. Maybe statistically, there are more open source projects out there that have non-paid lead developers, and they do their work on their own dime, and on their own time. But unless you're lucky enough to live in a place where you can hunt and gather for everything you need, you need money to live in a society, and have the resources to be able to sit at a keyboard long enough to churn out code. I could only afford to make my 'code contribution' because I have a day job where I needed the fix. -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users