smbPBX wrote: > Matt: > I am ALWAYS grateful to someone like Thorben and the people at Coalescent > Systems (The AMP People) who are making Asterisk easy-to-use for someone > like me who is a non-programmer. My contribution can come from testing and > sharing my experiences, and of course, cash donations.
Sure, we are do what we can. > Open-source model does work - Redhat is a large public company. Digium is on > its way to make money from support, from their business version of Asterisk, > and their ever expanding hardware offerings. And I am sure - and hope - that > AMP people do well. Indeed. It is definitely my preferred business model. Hence the work I do with the news etc. > In my business experience, I have seen many successful commercial software > go open-source after the fact, just speed up the development process. The > almost-instant testing nad feedback is indeed very valuable to the > developer. Definitely, as is the code review that typically takes place before the code is open sourced. :) > I, like you, would hope that Thorben would decide to go open source. Heh, not as much as me, I'm a C# coder! :) > I do appreciate the dialog. Indeed. -- Cheers, Matt Riddell _______________________________________________ http://www.sineapps.com/news.php (Daily Asterisk News - html) http://www.sineapps.com/rssfeed.php (Daily Asterisk News - rss) _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Biz mailing list Asterisk-Biz@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz