Nortel Strong-Arms Open Source Vendor Fonality

Asterisk is quirky, has a crappy configuration language and seven bazillion configuration files. And it’s still better than all of your proprietary products.

Exactly. Asterisk is the new sendmail. Crap, but mostly reliable, and everything else is far worse. And just like sendmail what Asterisk proves is that there’s a huge opportunity for someone to make one that works – OSS or no.
Nortel Strong-Arms Open Source Vendor Fonality