To be honest, the conclusion of the blog post that Freeswitch are not budging from their community release schedule does not surpise me one iota.
Freeswitch used to have a strong community spirit.
Things all changed since they took a more agressive commercial turn, a couple of years ago IIRC.
Since that point you now have to jump through the "register" hoop to gain access to stuff that should be open (I can't remember what it is, IIRC something like the APT repos being hidden behind a "register" wall, something like that).
I don't want to "register" with a commercial company to gain access to the foss community content. Because we all know what happens in the tech world if you give your details to a commercial company, the salesdroids start pestering you for an upsell/cross-sell, you get put in mailing lists you never asked to be put on, etc.
In Signalwire’s defence, reading through the old mailing list, I got the feeling they drove the development of Freeswitch for years without being properly compensated by downstream projects. Sadly I’ve also seen other parts of the Voip community recalibrate their generosity when it comes to open source and I honestly can’t blame them.
The team behind Matrix.org talked about a similar problem in one of their FOSDEM’25 talks: commercial vendors free loading on development.
Freeswitch used to have a strong community spirit.
Things all changed since they took a more agressive commercial turn, a couple of years ago IIRC.
Since that point you now have to jump through the "register" hoop to gain access to stuff that should be open (I can't remember what it is, IIRC something like the APT repos being hidden behind a "register" wall, something like that).
I don't want to "register" with a commercial company to gain access to the foss community content. Because we all know what happens in the tech world if you give your details to a commercial company, the salesdroids start pestering you for an upsell/cross-sell, you get put in mailing lists you never asked to be put on, etc.
The team behind Matrix.org talked about a similar problem in one of their FOSDEM’25 talks: commercial vendors free loading on development.