Nerd Vittles Leaves Trixbox and Annouces PBX-in-a-Flash

Note: I have to agree about the direction of Trixbox cough cough Asterisk cough Platform. It seems like they have lost touch with there roots. Just because you purchase an open-source project does not mean you have some ownership of the underling code. It belongs to the community as a whole and if anyone would have any rightful claim it would be our boy Marc Spencer. So there, I said. I have not really wanted to comment on this because A. there are some conflicting interests with my consulting services on the Asterisk iPBX and B. It is really a waste of my users and my own time. But with our respected Ward Mundy making that comment I felt I need to be honest about my feelings on this subject.

We’ve been keeping a low profile for a few weeks, and now it’s time to let the cat out of the bag. As some of you know, we just haven’t been thrilled with the direction of the trixbox project lately. Without boring everyone with a lot of detail, suffice it to say that it’s just gotten a little too proprietary, too closed, and too commercial for our open source, puritanical tastes."

So today, with a bunch of help from some really sharp folks, we embark upon a new open source project that we hope will become the best-of-breed Asterisk-based development platform. Our design goals are simple: a very modular system that meets the needs of Asterisk experimenters as well as those looking for a reliable, scalable, IP-based business telephony solution with all the bells and whistles.

Our up front promise is to keep the project open, participatory, reliable, and fun. After all, that’s what the Asterisk revolution was and is all about. The plan is to provide a free ISO-based offering for home or office use that will run on a dedicated Linux machine. There also will be a VMware image that will run on a Windows desktop. And, for the Mac desktop, we’ll provide both a VMware and a Parallels image.

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