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What are they waiting for? What might change their...

2010-08-05T01:26:58.093-07:00

What are they waiting for? What might change their stance on the product - ie "how high public demand is" - if lots of people want it, then so does Baracuda? Why have they decided to jump into the voice arena?, of which they have not even remote past experience.
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Well hello gentlemen, thank you for gracing my low...

2009-07-05T15:35:43.556-07:00

Well hello gentlemen, thank you for gracing my lowly blog. Let me just clarify for some readers, as my statements are a bit generalized. Had Baracuda not avoided a direct question posed by Tony Lewis as to their aime (correct old english spelling), speculation such as mine would not arise.

"at times decisions don't seem to be made with the project's best interests in mind" - this is a generalized remark aimed at asterisk not freeswitch (sorry, I am not advertising it so I am in no way required to honor trademarks, proper grammar, spelling or even english ;- just a jab). A shame I had not seen Kerrys interview with Anthony before posting this article (Kerry had hands in a similar situation in the past), but regardless I will still keep a watchful eye on Baracuda (i believe its 2 r's, but who's counting), it is bad form to avoid questions that are obvious to be publicized, normally big businesses do things like this to avoid answering questions they dont like - whats not to like Anthony is getting paid (I cant down a man for feeding his family) and FreeSwitch is still owned by Anthony and the FOSS community - right??

While nothing in freeSWITCH has any close resemblance to Asterisk, it was definitely inspired by asterisk in Anthony's desire to create a better mouse-trap, as there are there several dis-tasteful patterns that Digium continues to force upon us in their releases of Asterisk.

FYI for those that didnt know - Brian West is a past developer of Asterisk, and is in charge of Public Relations and Administration of FreeSWITCH, luckily he expressed the important thing here - Freeswitch was not bought.

thanks for stopping by guys - cheers!

"at times decisions don't seem to be made...

2009-06-22T07:03:16.135-07:00

"at times decisions don't seem to be made with the project's best interests in mind"

Could you elaborate on exactly what decisions? Or are you just posting something that you "heard" from someone else somewhere on the web? That seems to be something that a lot of people have started doing lately :-|

"Freeswitch gets its roots from Asterisk"

Could you please define "gets its roots from"? FreeSWITCH (btw, that's the proper capitalization ;-)) doesn't share any of Assterisk's code. The closest it comes to "getting roots from" Asterisk, is that several of the developers used to work on asterisk.

Here is the post... remember FreeSWITCH was NOT bo...

2009-06-20T03:39:39.213-07:00

Here is the post... remember FreeSWITCH was NOT bought.

http://www.voipstore.com/2009/06/interview-with-anthony-minessale-from-freeswitch/

If you follow up on the story where Kerry intervie...

2009-06-20T03:30:49.192-07:00

If you follow up on the story where Kerry interviews Anthony you'll see you have nothing to worry about.

/b
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