[Mac-telephony-list] Asterisk vs. OpenPBX

[Benjamin Kowarsch via List]

On Dec 21, 2006, at 3:54 AM, Colin Anderson via List wrote:

>> Asterisk and OpenPBX are separate and different (other than opbx was
>> derived from *)?
>
> OpenPBX is a fork of Asterisk. It came about because some of the  
> volunteer
> coders were frustrated that Digium would not accept their patches.  
> Digium is
> quite picky about accepting patches or changes; they want to make sure
> Asterisk is as stable as possible (I'm sure there is a personality  
> aspect
> there, too). OpenPBX allows these guys to scratch their itch unimpeded

Have you ever looked at the code?

Are you aware of the issues which have been addressed in opbx?

Do you realise that the Freeswitch and the Yate people have addressed  
the very same criticisms when they went about writing a new telephony  
engine from scratch?

Do you realise that many of the commercial packaging of Asterisk with  
some sort of front end people have their own patches to address many  
of the same issues?

Do you realise that even before the first public release, there are  
commercial vendors of management front ends knocking on opbx' doors  
expressing interest to make their software use it, usually out of  
frustration with Digium?

There are simply too many people who share the same views on what is  
wrong with the Asterisk code base for you to come along and dismiss  
this as a mere "scratch an itch" or ego thing.

Do yourself a favour and read the Background paragraph on the  
OpenPBX.org Voip-Info wiki very carefully ...

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=OpenPBX.org#Background

You will find that these views are shared across the resident  
population of several projects.

If so many people tell you that something is wrong, maybe they have a  
point?!

rgds
benjk