* Andrew Kohlsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050529 21:07]: > On Sunday 29 May 2005 20:59, Aidan Van Dyk wrote: > > 1) Simply CVS head (as of some point in time) with certain features or > > bug fixes "backed out" > > > > 2) In addition to CVS head, some important features and bug fixes. > > I think it's simply #2. They are taking HEAD and maintaining a version where > they are extraordinarily careful about what goes in. Similar to what > "stable" was supposed to be.
Well, I disagree on the "stable" comment here - but that's neither here nor there. If they are "fixing" things in ABE that are broken in "Open Source", and not simply backing out features, they why aren't these bug fixes in the open source version? If they are only "backing out" features to be more conservative, then that would quite OK, but the truth is, they haven't really been up front with what they are doing. But part of the point of the GPL is that these things are "open". But Digium doesn't have to comply with the GPL for stuff properly disclaimed, so they are allowed to do that. I've just not been impressed with Digium's behaviour lately. They've gotten quite hostile over Sangoma hardware lately, claiming that Sangoma (by continuing to develop, refine, and expand their hardware lines, which are much older than asterisk, and which asterisk was originally developed on) are just ripping them off. If anything, Digium is ripping people off with hardware which is inferior (though I've seen claims that they have some good new stuff coming - excellent!). And now they introduce a product that *directly* competes with the people in the "asterisk community" (is that Digium speak for free coders?) who are working on developing, using, and selling asterisk-based solutions. What incentive does some non-Digium person/developer/company now have to make sure their stuff is disclaimed to Digium, if they know that doing so will give Digium a leg up on them in trying to sell it? And for all the claims we've heard that there is no "other version" of asterisk, we know know that Digium does, indeed, have such a version, which, though based on the available open-source code, is different, and that the differences are unknown, and that they are selling it as direct competition to the others contributing to Asterisk. In all, we've seen Digium going to great lengths to try and build an asterisk community to enhance asterisk, but is treating them as a group of indentured users, testers, coders. a. -- Aidan Van Dyk Create like a god, [EMAIL PROTECTED] command like a king, http://www.highrise.ca/ work like a slave.
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