[Freeswitch-users] FreeSWITCH vs Asterisk on Reddit...

Wed Feb 3 09:16:57 MSK 2016

My personal experience.  I rescued a client by replacing his Elastix with
FS because it's dropping calls.

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Larry Morley <lmorley at neny.cslimits.net>
wrote:

> Regarding this portion of Ken's comment in particular:
>
> "... people think that before there is Free in the name or that it is open
> source, that the developers of the project are doing this for free. ..."
>
> That attitude by no means applies to open source software alone; it's been
> my experience that you'll most certainly find the same attitudes and
> erroneous beliefs in play, in the realms of free works in general - e.g.,
> free or public domain hardware, software, artwork, music, writing, circuit
> designs. Those attitudes and beliefs are the reason why it's so uncommon
> for companies to offer free phone based technical support anymore. They're
> the reason why when you do find phone based tech support, or, for example,
> report a trouble to a phone company, cable company, ITSP, etc., the
> response you get is tiered. In the former, they know there's a good chance
> that the real reason for the call is because the caller didn't want to
> bother reading the documentation supplied with the product. Which, over
> time, has resulted in less documentation being supplied with many products
> - I've witnessed first hand "the bean counters" opting to not spend what
> they would have in years past to hire technical writers, choosing instead
> to have an intern or recent hire produce something the company can put in
> the box.
>
> I firmly believe these attitudes stem from a sense of entitlement. And a
> belief on the part of some that their time, their problem, their existence,
> is more important than anyone else's.
>
> Fortunately, I also know that history is a cyclical beast, and that at
> some point, the attitudes and fundamental beliefs of perhaps not everyone,
> but at least of the greater society, will likely return, for a while at any
> rate - for history is cyclical - to a point where, bearing in mind that
> only a healthy, whole, grounded person has the ability to give of
> themselves let alone anything with giving - people will tend to be far more
> concerned with what they can contribute to others, both now and for
> posterity - and will choose to act in accordance with their beliefs of
> their own accord, their own free wills - than with what they themselves can
> accumulate and with what others can do for them.
>
> I welcome the arrival of that day.
>
> Larry Morley
>
> On Dec 16, 2015 01:20, "Ken Rice" <krice at freeswitch.org> wrote:
> >
> > That guy got cranky because he thought that the developers time was
> free… For some reason people think that before there is Free in the name or
> that it is open source, that the developers of the project are doing this
> for free. We all have families to feed. Unlike some open source projects,
> FreeSWITCH is not funded by millions of dollars of funding, every bit of
> funding comes from people using FreeSWITCH and contracting the FreeSWITCH
> Team to help them deploy, configure, or enhance the software. I can’t think
> of anyone of the supporters that has wanted to keep any code additions out
> of tree.
> >
> >
> >
> > So even if you don’t have a huge budget you can still help out Anthony,
> Brian, Mike, Me, and William. Contact us, let us help with your project.
> Sure, there may be a charge for that initial consultation, but it also
> allows us to dedicate time with you to engineer a plan to help you reach
> your goals.
> >
> >
> >
> > Want to send a little Christmas or Hanukkah gift to one of the
> Developers? Visit https://freeswitch.org/core-team/, Our wishlists are
> there.
> >
> > Want to but the dev’s dinner or something Similar? There’s a donate
> button right on the website.
> >
> >
> >
> > Want to help in other ways?
> >
> > Join the Docs Team and help document things on Confluence. We still have
> a several hundred pages on the old wiki that need to be clean up, updated
> and migrated to Confluence.
> >
> > Help us sort thru the bugs and test patches and pull requests. Anyone
> can comment on open tickets and add information… Want to be an official bug
> marshall? Email me (krice at freeswitch.org) or brian at freeswitch.org off
> list and we’ll help get you started.
> >
> > Join the FreeSWITCH Team via HipChat at https://hipchat.freeswitch.org/
> hang out meet the devs and chat with other FreeSWITCH users.
> >
> > Like IRC? Check out #FreeSWITCH on freenode.net
> >
> >
> >
> > Every Little Bit Helps!
> >
> >
> >
> > K
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > From: freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:
> freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of chris
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 11:38 PM
> > To: FreeSWITCH Users Help <freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] FreeSWITCH vs Asterisk on Reddit...
> >
> >
> >
> > about on par with this one which was interesting:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> https://www.reddit.com/r/freeswitch/comments/3o5acr/i_failed_with_freeswitch/
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Brian West <brian at freeswitch.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Interesting thread...
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> https://www.reddit.com/r/VOIP/comments/3wy9h8/freeswitch_vs_asterisk/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Everyone should check it out.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Brian West
> >> brian at freeswitch.org
> >>
> >> Twitter: @FreeSWITCH , @briankwest
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> >> http://www.freeswitchcookbook.com
> >>
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> >>
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> >>
> >>
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