Digium Blog Appears to Censor Comments

This is pretty sad. I hope they are just short-staffed.

I read this article yesterday and was surprised to see that buried in a defensive stance against sipXecs and Nortel were comments claiming my experiences with Asterisk where "rhetoric" and calling us a "Competing Open Source Project" (I am not sure what we are competing for, I thought we were on the same side, but ok)

http://blogs.digium.com/2008/08/19/asterisk-the-global-leader-in-open-source-ip-pbx-and-telephony/

Here's what he said that caught my eye:
"You should recognize that the Asterisk rhetoric from the sipXecs and FreeSwitch teams refers to Asterisk over 4 years and several versions ago when they last looked at the feature set."

This guy clearly didn't work there when I was an Asterisk developer and he has no idea the last time I looked at Asterisk because I still have had patches added to Asterisk SVN as recently as Nov 2006. I did a heck of a lot more than "look at the feature set" thank you very much.

Anyway,

I posted a comment with my feedback and almost 24 hours later it's still awaiting moderation. The sad thing was all it said was that we should all work together.

Screen Shot Showing Comment

PDF of posting with comment.

Here is my comment anyway since they won't post it:

I didn't know open source projects had to compete. They are all free aren't they? I think that's the whole problem here. Calling my list of valid issues with Asterisk rhetoric, won't make them go away. Pretending Asterisk does not suffer from any problems and only pointing out it's strengths is not the way to make it better.
Please admit that I have done more than most people are willing to do for completely FREE to try to make Asterisk better for several years. I only know enough to itemize the issues from that *long* experience as a an Asterisk developer.
I, in fact, invented the whole idea of the "function variables" that now are rampant in Asterisk 1.6 and there are *plenty* more things I could list if I wanted to. I also see plenty of ideas we have already implemented in FreeSWITCH starting to crop up in 1.6 as well. This is the nature of open source. If Digium chooses to actually cooperate with the open source telephony community there is much to be gained for all.