Thank You, Builders
Anytime I have a fun meeting with a vendor it's a bonus; they're all nice folks, but they're not always entertaining. Some are, well, I won't say boring, but certainly dry. So whatever else Fonality has going for it, it has a fun CEO who seems excited about the company. The whole VoIP space is fascinating to me anyway, because it demonstrates the sheer power and inventiveness of open source
Let's take a wee trip back in time, back to when Richard Stallman had no gray hairs or wrinkles. Back to the time when RMS and the fine folks at the GNU project were writing compilers, debuggers, fileutils, shellutils, binutils, coreutils, diffutils, findutils, fontutils, Emacs, the Bash shell, and all the high-quality Linux tools that we take for granted, and that are the envy of Unix admins everywhere. Let us not forget the GPL, the General Public License, which ensured that all of that great code would be protected, freely available, and freely modifiable and re-distributable. That's a pretty neat trick.
Then along came Intel and the affordable, open i386 platform.
Then along came the Internet, and geeks could talk to other geeks on the other side of the globe without paying big phone bills, and they could share complex information.
Then along came Linus Torvalds.
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