Setting up a PBX for Israel<->US communication

[Amos Shapira]

2009/2/10 Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at cohens.org.il>:
> FreeSwitch developers have many bad words regarding Asterisk. So many of
> them are unfounded (or no longer founded) that I generally distrust
> them.

This guy claims to be within the first tier of Asterisk commiters and
to know its code through and through.

Has Asterisk managed to get rid of the deadlocks and segfaults (and
apparently a prehistoric architecture) he mentions in his "FreeSwitch
vs Asterisk" at http://freeswitch.org/node/117?

>
> At the moment Asterisk is more mature and far more deployed.

So it appears. But also I keep hearing horror stories about
configuring it, and the guy who mentioned FreeSWITCH in the link from
my previous message had experience with Asterisk and prefers
FreeSWITCH.

What merit points are there for Asterisk beyond "everyone uses it" (a
billion flies CAN be wrong, you know)? Can it do something that
FreeSwitch can't (the FreeSwitch guy says something about Asterisk
being a PBX while FreeSwitch is a software switch, I don't know what's
the difference and for now I plan to use it only for myself and maybe
to connect a couple of trans-pacific offices)?

>
> (and does support Lua, BTW. Only nobody really bothers using it. As the
> fact that most people didn't touch the pbx_perl and pbx_js that the
> author of FS wrote as Asterisk modules before starting FS)
>
> Anyway, FS's license is MPL. Which for me is a concern to avoid using
> it: yet another GPL-incompatible software does not help anybody.

In all the arguments above I didn't see one which actually refers to
the merits of FreeSwitch.

I'm not trying to annoy, just understand what am I missing about it,
if at all. So far your points against it are not conclusive, IMHO.

Thanks,

--Amos