On Oct 9, 2009, at 2:41 AM, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Michael Collins > <m...@freeswitch.org> wrote: >> Thanks for reporting back. Please let all the Asterisk users know >> that they >> are welcome to join us in #freeswitch on irc.freenode.net and that >> they will >> not be abused like people do in other less friendly IRC channels. > > Funny you mention this. Many people report that the way the FS > community refers to Asterisk in docs/wikis/irc/whatever makes the FS > camp seem *less* welcoming to them. After all, they identify as > Asterisk Users and take the criticism as being kinda harsh. Most of > them acknowledge the shortcomings of Asterisk but are put off when > someone else points them out. It's crazy, I know. The thing is, I > remember thinking that too. After getting to know FS better, I didn't > notice it as much. Nobody likes to hear their baby is ugly --even if > they know it is. > > At our session, and in general, I've noticed people are more > interested in hearing about FS when you don't make direct comparisons > to Asterisk. Besides, FS stands on it's own merit. > > Just what I've observed *and* my 2 additional cents.
I have certainly seen this on irc in the past and we should do our best to avoid this, I have not seen this in the docs or wiki, do you know of any specifics you can point me to so we can correct this issue. Mike _______________________________________________ FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
