Monthly Archives: October 2005

OpenPBX.org

October 7, 2005 – 5:13 pm

Not that I’m at all taking credit for this, but OpenPBX.org has forked the Asterisk code. According to them, the main reason was that they weren’t able to get the changes they needed into the mainline of Asterisk. I think there’s another reason too - the dual source licensing issue. Either way, asterisk [...]

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Oh the humanity!!!!

October 7, 2005 – 4:37 pm

I confessed to a friend this week that everytime I started to write about Asterisk, I felt like I was bashing it. He confessed to me that he was afraid sometimes to criticize it as well, because of the overwhelming popularity of the software, and the large number of smart people who liked it. [...]

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The business of Open Source

October 3, 2005 – 9:50 am

An excellent article from Business Week about Open Source and Venture Capitalists
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Session Border Controllers

October 1, 2005 – 8:57 pm

Lately, I’ve been thinking and writing (for myself, mostly, but I’m going to send it off to the SIP Forum as well) about session border controllers in a pure SIP network. Here’s what I’ve been able to come up with, and I wanted to share it with you:
1) As long as there are private interests [...]

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