<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail_signature">My personal experience. I rescued a client by replacing his Elastix with FS because it's dropping calls.</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Larry Morley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lmorley@neny.cslimits.net" target="_blank">lmorley@neny.cslimits.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Regarding this portion of Ken's comment in particular:</p>
<p dir="ltr">"... 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. ..."</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I welcome the arrival of that day.</p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
<p dir="ltr">Larry Morley<br></p>
</font></span><p dir="ltr"></p><div><div class="h5">On Dec 16, 2015 01:20, "Ken Rice" <<a href="mailto:krice@freeswitch.org" target="_blank">krice@freeswitch.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> 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.<br>
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> From: <a href="mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org" target="_blank">freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org</a>] On Behalf Of chris<br>
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> Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] FreeSWITCH vs Asterisk on Reddit...<br>
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