BUG FreePBX Update Woes

[compuguy1088]

hehe well long time in coming anybody reminded of a similar process?

GREEN Open Source Version >> GREEN Open Source Version bought by commercial concern >> GREEN Community Edition replaces Open Source Version >> GREEN Professional Edition Released all new coding takes place on this version >> KILL GREEN Community Edition >> USERS must switch to COMMERCIAL Version


Could the orange guys be far behind?

ORANGE Open Source Version >> ORANGE Open source version bought by commercial concern - ownership changed hands several times >> ORANGE Disto Released >> ORANGE Amalgamates proprietary PBX with ORANGE open source. Adds commercial modules (think hybrid model) >> ORANGE Hybrid (open and closed commercial source) sold to a different commercial concern >> Where to next?

Being able to look back on the Green fiasco and compare it to the current goings on of Orange has been fascinating. I especially like the picture of our dear friends above bashing on alternative GUI's as it seems to me the Greens did something similar to the Orange when they forked the original Orange Open Source GUI (notice the hammer has two claws? Remind you of Janus?) . That being said competition fosters innovation! This is why PIAF was created in the first place! Originally the Greens just did not like our vision so a few of us got together and PIAF was born. Continuing down the path I am quite hopeful the PIAF 4 will be as orange free as possible and you will get to choose the flavor of GUI you want.

Of course removing the Orange stuff from our offerings is something that they want so we may not and keep it just for the "pot stirring effect"


Now where did I put my asbestos underwear...............


Tom

There's also the option of pulling a LibreOffice....it doesn't have to be like either of those scenarios....

I'm told that Malcolm's comments were directed toward at least one hardware vendor rather than us. You can draw your own conclusions based upon some of those pictured in the tweets above. Always surprising to watch a company bad mouth their own product, but I fully appreciate that it's code they no longer wish to support.

Nevertheless, we are comfortable with our Incredible PBX 11 for Asterisk-GUI builds and the security provided to end-users. We had anticipated this development for quite a while so an alternative download site already was built into our installers except for the Raspberry Pi. That build now has been updated.

We are in the process of migrating Asterisk-GUI to GitHub, and then we hope to directly enhance the software as time permits. Help is always welcomed! It's an excellent platform both for development and for learning about Asterisk. We have no plans to scrap it despite Digium's reservations. It has some other advantages that you can read about elsewhere in this thread.

It still has a long way to go until it matches the featureset of FreePBX. Though, it is always good to have a backup plan. If I have the time, I'm musing over pulling the latest code from the FreePBX git and investigating a fork/liberation of FreePBX......

 

[tycho]

I for one smile more nowadays.

As in your avatar, all spikey-toothed with blood dripping therefrom?

 

[darmock]

I kinda thought that I might change the color of the blood from red to orange........

 

[tycho]

I kinda thought that I might change the color of the blood from red to orange........

Oooooh; I like that idea. Too subtle? Naaaaah...

 

[darmock]

Orange it is....... looks like a puddle of orange bits though or maybe orange vomit... sorry can't resist

 

[briankelly63]

There's also the option of pulling a LibreOffice....it doesn't have to be like either of those scenarios....


It still has a long way to go until it matches the featureset of FreePBX. Though, it is always good to have a backup plan. If I have the time, I'm musing over pulling the latest code from the FreePBX git and investigating a fork/liberation of FreePBX......

Freepbx should have been forked as soon as the commercial module thing arose. After the recent acquisition it REALLY needs to be forked.

 

[briankelly63]

As far as onging support of the GUI is concerned.... It's a great alternative, I hope it will be developed further, it doesn't need to have long term support. It's for SOHO, small biz right now and as others have pointed out... if you have a firewalled machine then a static install that lasts for years (like 1.4 unchanged) is just fine.

 

[wardmundy]

Freepbx should have been forked as soon as the commercial module thing arose. After the recent acquisition it REALLY needs to be forked.

Stay tuned.

 

[darmock]

Yippee Ward is on it!!!!

Tom

 

[synack]

FreerPBX?

 

[tycho]

FreerPBX?

Not far enough!

Free-estPBX!

 

[jeff.h]

Not far enough!

Free-estPBX!

FoC-PBX (Free of Charge)

 

[vic555]

Open source maybe free, but not cheap. Ward and Developers, Tom, Joe, et.al. are working without immediate renumeration. It is also not a turn key solution, as a viable open source community has to support it.

The PfSense (Freebsd)community, is a good example. The developers also sell workshops, and commercial support, but there is extremely strong community support. In fact, much of the development, additional features and software testing orginates from the user community. However, these activities support the developers, so they can actually develop.

It is apparent that the folks at Smooze have muffed the model.

 

[darmock]

I kinda like the Incredible-GUI myself..........


Tom

 

[briankelly63]

Free for all PBX

Oops... forgot we already have that.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/free-for-all

 

[wardmundy]

I kinda like the Incredible-GUI myself..........

 

[briankelly63]

Stay tuned.

I've been sitting by my "radio" for days. Haven't eaten a thing! Still "staying tuned", don't want to miss anything.

 

[darmock]

Remember the infamous

RSN

Real Soon Now.

crap is easy and quick.... quality takes time and is harder.... plus all of the programmers are wearing out the hamster wheels we are running in!


Tom