Archive for May, 2015

Freedom and the FreePBX Cloud: Is an Apple-like Ecosystem GPL-Compliant?

Freedom and the FreePBX Cloud: Is an Apple-like Ecosystem GPL-Compliant?

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

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Short Answer: No way, José!     Right Answer: Sangoma should fix it.     Our Answer: New GPL Repo fixes it… today! We began our series on FreePBX® by providing a GPL-compliant alternative to the base design of the FreePBX GUI minus the elements which have made redistribution and/or code modification difficult despite the clear language of the product’s GPL licenses. In our last article, we introduced new turnkey versions of Incredible PBX for CentOS featuring your choice of the 2.11 or 12.0 Incredible PBX… Read More ›

Introducing Incredible PBX with Incredible GUI for CentOS and Scientific Linux

Introducing Incredible PBX with Incredible GUI for CentOS and Scientific Linux

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

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View image | gettyimages.com [iframe-popup id="4″] If you’re looking for a pure GPL, open source Asterisk® aggregation with a pure GPL, open source graphical user interface, then today’s your lucky day. Incredible PBX™ with the new Incredible GUI for CentOS 6.5 and 7 is an independent aggregation based solely upon GPL code. Because of the nature of the CentOS platform, it was built from the ground up. The Incredible PBX installers are pure GPL open source code so you are… Read More ›

Turning the Page on Asterisk GUIs: Here's to a New Beginning with a GUI Facelift

Turning the Page on Asterisk GUIs: Here’s to a New Beginning with a GUI Facelift

Friday, May 15, 2015

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Having invested enormous energy in the Asterisk® and FreePBX® open source communities for a dozen years, it’s always disappointing when commercial interests fundamentally change the direction of open source projects. We witnessed it first hand with the Fonality® takeover of the Asterisk@Home and trixbox® projects many years ago. Today there is no trixbox or Asterisk@Home open source project. Fonality’s business phone systems appear to be thriving thanks in no small part to the customer base they inherited with the buyout… Read More ›

View from the Trenches: A Fresh Look at VoIP Project Development in the Cloud

View from the Trenches: A Fresh Look at VoIP Project Development in the Cloud

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

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The world of cloud-based computing has profoundly changed over the past year. And today we want to take a fresh look at the cloud landscape for those of you that spend considerable time experimenting or tweaking software applications either for customers or for your own organization. First, a brief paragraph of history. We began our cloud experiments almost seven years ago when Amazon S3 was still in its infancy. At the time, Amazon S3 was a real bargain even with… Read More ›

Wear Something Green for May Day: The Schmoozification of Sangoma

Wear Something Green for May Day: The Schmoozification of Sangoma

Friday, May 1, 2015

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For anyone that wants to run FreePBX® 12 with a module not produced or sold by Sangoma without being bombarded with daily emails and nasty security warnings in your GUI, here’s a portion of the agreement Sangoma would like you to sign: And the response to those that dare claim such a practice is damaging the fabric of the Asterisk open source community: Ward believes that he can run around, signing modules that attack other peoples machines, and then when… Read More ›