Comments on: Trixbox, Fonality Calls Home With Your Usage Statistics http://www.jeremy-mcnamara.com/2007/12/17/trixbox-fonality-calls-home-with-your-usage-statistics/ VoIP, Asterisk and OpenSER: News, Information and Tutorials Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:54:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: jj http://www.jeremy-mcnamara.com/2007/12/17/trixbox-fonality-calls-home-with-your-usage-statistics/#comment-1673 jj Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:33:35 +0000 http://www.jeremy-mcnamara.com/2007/12/17/trixbox-fonality-calls-home-with-your-usage-statistics/#comment-1673 Mike: I remember hearing that Fonality's commercial solution also establishes an encrypted VPN from the client's location back to a Fonality server for 'remote management' purposes - Perhaps this also needs to be explained and setup as an opt-in process versus keeping it hidden from the customer. A quick google 'fonality vpn' confirms my memory. Mike: I remember hearing that Fonality’s commercial solution also establishes an encrypted VPN from the client’s location back to a Fonality server for ‘remote management’ purposes - Perhaps this also needs to be explained and setup as an opt-in process versus keeping it hidden from the customer.

A quick google ‘fonality vpn’ confirms my memory.

]]> By: Mike http://www.jeremy-mcnamara.com/2007/12/17/trixbox-fonality-calls-home-with-your-usage-statistics/#comment-1653 Mike Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:40:48 +0000 http://www.jeremy-mcnamara.com/2007/12/17/trixbox-fonality-calls-home-with-your-usage-statistics/#comment-1653 Fonality has not made a secret of the fact that they view trixbox as a lead generation tool for their commercial products. Guess this is one way they plan on gathering that info. We were somewhat excited about their decision to release a free version of the HUD client until we noticed that it runs an IRC server for no apparent reason we could discern. While they are coming clean maybe they can explain that as well... Fonality has not made a secret of the fact that they view trixbox as a lead generation tool for their commercial products. Guess this is one way they plan on gathering that info. We were somewhat excited about their decision to release a free version of the HUD client until we noticed that it runs an IRC server for no apparent reason we could discern. While they are coming clean maybe they can explain that as well…

]]> By: jj http://www.jeremy-mcnamara.com/2007/12/17/trixbox-fonality-calls-home-with-your-usage-statistics/#comment-1643 jj Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:28:26 +0000 http://www.jeremy-mcnamara.com/2007/12/17/trixbox-fonality-calls-home-with-your-usage-statistics/#comment-1643 Kerry: Mike, Olaf, many others and myself were in the same room when the person came in, unplugged and moved other gear out of the way and promptly walked out - They didn't bother to even utter a single word to ANYONE. The CodeZone was about collaboration and learning, if your people were at all interested in helping out, they would have stuck around to ask any questions that others may have had. Kerry: Mike, Olaf, many others and myself were in the same room when the person came in, unplugged and moved other gear out of the way and promptly walked out - They didn’t bother to even utter a single word to ANYONE.

The CodeZone was about collaboration and learning, if your people were at all interested in helping out, they would have stuck around to ask any questions that others may have had.

]]> By: Kerry Garrison http://www.jeremy-mcnamara.com/2007/12/17/trixbox-fonality-calls-home-with-your-usage-statistics/#comment-1633 Kerry Garrison Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:19:40 +0000 http://www.jeremy-mcnamara.com/2007/12/17/trixbox-fonality-calls-home-with-your-usage-statistics/#comment-1633 We have admitted we did not roll out this program properly and are making immediate moves to fix it. I never saw your previous post about Astricon but we were invited to come "drop off a box and let people play with it", so your allegations are simply incorrect and since the other two machines that had been there had not been able to boot for over 48 hours we sure didn't feel like were were "pushing others out of the way". Its one thing to point out issues with people or companies but when the only purpose is to rant with inaccurate information you only do a disservice to those who read it. Kerry Garrison trixbox Community director We have admitted we did not roll out this program properly and are making immediate moves to fix it.

I never saw your previous post about Astricon but we were invited to come “drop off a box and let people play with it”, so your allegations are simply incorrect and since the other two machines that had been there had not been able to boot for over 48 hours we sure didn’t feel like were were “pushing others out of the way”.

Its one thing to point out issues with people or companies but when the only purpose is to rant with inaccurate information you only do a disservice to those who read it.

Kerry Garrison
trixbox Community director

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