On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 04:12:26PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > Considering they will have to start making money somehow at some point > in order to keep from going under (it looks like the company is going > after profit and not fun) they will have to add extra features for pay > (such as answering machine, call router, etc.). If they make the > protocol open then I don't think they will be able to do this, so I > kind of understand why they keep it closed source. > > As much as I am pro open-source, you need think about their side of > things also (they have to eat somehow ;-)
They can sell cocaine, for all I care. That too might help them to make ends meet. Locking me out from communicating with my neighbor is not a legitimate business which I can respect. Sure they can make non-free answering machines and call routers with an open protocol! They simply have to make theirs better. It can be just the same as Internet routers, which mostly use open protocols. P.S. Please note I'm not much of a free-software preacher. I'm talking about this specific case since prohibition of interoperatibility is a thing Linux users (ideological or not) got burnt by way too often. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
