There will never be a critical mass of users at pbxinaflash.com until there is a FreeePBX 13 based PIAF.Unless the FreePBX people start offering free support on these pages (very unlikely!),
for this to happen a critical mass of users has to upgrade and start using it (as a minimum).
With the trend over the last year or so pointing in the opposite direction (at least among users that frequent this forum)
I can't see how such a critical mass of users can be built...
Control and Money.Hence, why do it?
Without diving into GPL licensing too deep, this is the "tivoization" problem GPL3 is suppose to solve.Control and Money.
Bootstrapping open to propriety software is a very common.
Makes XIVO even more attractive - nobody can pull a Sangoma/FreePBX on it!...Second, XiVO is open source GPL3 code .
... Fourth, XiVO supports virtually identical PHP code as FreePBX so there is very little learning curve to migrate components to the XiVO platform.
Don't kid yourself, with a change of corporate leadership, XIVO could easily become just as closed or more so than FreePBX.Without diving into GPL licensing too deep, this is the "tivoization" problem GPL3 is suppose to solve.
As long as the code is under GPL v.2 you can get away with it. The moment it is GPL v.3 - you can't.
Makes XIVO even more attractive - nobody can pull a Sangoma/FreePBX on it!
Agreed, as said, a different mindset is evident with XIVO.@jerrm: XiVO has been around for 10 years and still has the original development staff in place and working. Sure. Things can change. Don't we all know it. But Avencall has built a huge, profitable business as a systems integrator while retaining ALL of the original developers. I've seen no evidence that they plan to sell out either their product, their business model, or their users.
As I said before, if you want a better guarantee, you're going to have to pay for it by using/moving to a commercial platform. Once you make that choice, I see no reason anyone would ever stick with FreePBX.
It sure can happen... GOING FORWARD. But today's codebase can't be "locked"...... XIVO could easily become just as closed or more so than FreePBX.
The same could have been said for FPBX a year ago. To use your own words, they could at any moment "pull a Sangoma/FreePBX" on XIVO (again, I don't really see that happening).It sure can happen... GOING FORWARD. But today's codebase can't be "locked"...
True, and I am not an upgrade for the sake of upgrading kind of guy, but I'd never implement anything new without some level of near-mid term bug fix/maintenance. I have no desire for a FreePBX variant I have to backport patches to. I'd rather live with FPBX13, probably non-distro, but distro if need be.Just like Ward said, Asterisk and related telephone systems are one of the most conservative spaces. You don't fschk with what works!
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