On 02/22/2018 11:33, Fred Pettersson wrote:
Look I don't wanna start a fire here and have full respect for the team behind FreeSWITCH.
It's 2018 right? I am talking about Evolution. Why doesn't the FreeSWITCH community have a more up to date online community board? I am talking about the mailing lists, why not use a tool to help the community a bit more and make it grow? As a user who's not delved very deep into it myself, and someone who truly appreciates the fact that FS is properly designed and developed, which is why _I_ use it rather than *, but as such I never end up spending much time consecutive time on it, and in this long running sentence, will always appreciate things that makes it easy for a novice to get started.
Open source software, often driven by individual interests, certainly can have issues with getting people past the initial install. FS for example, have some excellent videos to help you get started! Then if you want to know more they would not mind, I'm sure, if you paid them for support so they can have some income. I've walked down the path of offering Open Source s/w and charged for support etc. It can be profitable, but it can also be a pain in the butt with not enough cash flow to become really viable. Often times someone will suggest some improvement, as you have, and the reply can easily be "Great, do it!". I'm not suggesting that I'm talking for this group in the least, but I have seen it first hand and know how it can be. --- fs