In article <0EF08A1199B44F7F112EB853@[10.0.0.14]>, Kenneth Porter shiva@sewingwitch.com wrote:
--On Friday, October 05, 2007 9:11 PM +0000 Tony Mountifield tony@softins.clara.co.uk wrote:
That very much depends on who you ask. Many people (myself included) prefer the original version which is actively developed by Digium in partnership with the community.
Can you say why you prefer it? I've not followed any threads comparing the two, so only have the issues listed in the voip wiki to go by. (See link in previous post.) I've seen the frustration over Sun's control of OpenOffice, and figured openpbx's fork is similarly motivated.
I haven't tried OpenPBX/CallWeaver, so it's not a technical viewpoint. I suppose it's more a question of trust or confidence. It appeared to me that Asterisk was forked to OpenPBX in a fit of pique by two or three individuals. I kept an eye on the OpenPBX website for quite a few months after the fork, and it appeared to me to quickly stagnate, and didn't seem to gain any momentum.
In contrast, I found original Asterisk to have a lot of forward momentum and a large community around it. So I stuck with it, and haven't paid much attention to OpenPBX/CallWeaver more recently. It certainly seems much lower-profile than Asterisk.
Cheers Tony