As some of you may know I am part of the Asterisk users list. I can not understand why people expect open source to be free and the best. As usual every once in a while people complain that there is not enough features available, that this or that is broken etc. It is called Open Source for a reason. In the case of Asterisk while Digium controls what goes in Asterisk a lot of the code is submitted by users. If you do not like what is in there then either code it to your liking or pay some one to do it. Back in the day when I was new to Asterisk and I was not able to write my own code I needed something added. I simply went on to the developers list and offered to pay some one to code the feature. It bothers me to end that people expect to have everything that they want for free. This makes me laugh thinking about Microsoft. There you pay for the product and you still don’t get all the features that you want.
Sorry for the rant. It has been a while since I had time to write about it and now I had the time 😉
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