[Freeswitch-users] FS Slide deck?

[Karl Vesterling]

If that's the case, does this also apply to VoIP gateway services?

If so, I'll consider phrasing this differently:

http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Voicepulse.xml
--begin--
Voicepulse Warning

WARNING!!! Recent changes (Sep 2008) in VoicePulse have limited  
connect03 to only IAX termination. Please remove any entries that you  
may have reflecting the gateway below from your dialplan as it will  
most likely answer the call and play a message saying something to the  
effect of "Your call could not be completed as dialed because we  
changed our production environment in an effort to demonstrate what  
bad engineering is all about. BAD is an acronymn for Broken As  
Designed. Please hang up and make changes on all your switches. Even  
though we shouldn't have answered the call and simply ignored it  
entirely so that another gateway could facilitate your call, we FELT  
it wise to seriously inconvenience you by answering the call  
immediately giving no other gateway a chance to place the call. Thanks  
for using our service and we look forward to abusing you again in the  
near future.
UPDATE - Problem getting worse, not better 3/30/2009. I switched DID  
providers because of problems w/ Voicepulse, such as echo, dropped  
calls, and consistent registration problems hence calls don't get  
placed and inbound don't get routed to me. Incidentally, they will not  
port DID's, they'll tell you they will, but they don't.
--end--

Perhaps just saying, "stay away, far far away. Recommend this service  
only to people and/or organizations you don't like or are in direct  
competition with" would suffice eh?

Suggestions? Recommendations?

Best Regards,
Karl J. Vesterling
kjv at ken-ton.com
202-461-3231 x0

On Oct 9, 2009, at 3:05 AM, Michael Collins wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Gabriel Gunderson <gabe at gundy.org>  
> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Michael Collins  
> <msc at 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.
>
> Interesting. I'd like to know what specifically turned them off. It  
> could be node 117, but that was written by Anthony in response to  
> dozens of questions about the subject. In any case, if the Asterisk  
> guys look at the first edition of the Starfish/TFOT book they'll see  
> glowing praise of Anthony Minessale and Brian West, so maybe they'll  
> be willing to listen to those guys since they've got so much  
> Asterisk knowledge. The other thing is that many people in the  
> FreeSWITCH community are Asterisk refugees. They left Asterisk for  
> FreeSWITCH because they had some sort of trouble with Asterisk. If  
> that comes across in the docs then we'll have to see about cleaning  
> that up.
>
> 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.
>
> Agreed. Direct comparisons can always be slanted in any direction.  
> Besides, FreeSWITCH stacks up very well against a lot of modern  
> (i.e. expensive) equipment put out by the big boys (Cisco, Avaya,  
> NEC, ShoreTel, etc.).
>
> Just what I've observed *and* my 2 additional cents.
>
> Gabe
> Thanks,
> MC
>
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