> > > Matt Riddell wrote: > > > >I for one have built my business around a product Digium has given me. > > > > > > I'm > > > > > > >not about to turn around and stab them in the back. > > > > > > RIGHT ON! None of these bastards would have the power of Asterisk to > > > fork if Digium hadn't gave it to the world in the first place. > > > > > > My Loyalties are to Mark and Digium all the way. > > > > > > > > > Jeremy McNamara > > > > I find myself in the unusual position of agreeing with Jeremy here. :) (no > > offense intended, Jeremy.) I don't want to get into legalities or dive into > > this flame war, but I think that Digium has done the world a great service > > by developing, funding, and releasing Asterisk. I think they deserve to > > profit from their work, and I will support them. If some on this list don't > > agree with Digium's vision of Asterisk's future, then they should > > contribute code and publicly debate their positions. Working against Digium > > IMHO is counter productive, and discourages future open source development. > > In what way is OpenPBX working against Digium? A fair percentage of the new > code in OpenPBX has either previously not been accepted by Digium or has not > been "disclaimed" by the owners of that code for one reason or another. > Putting these patches together in one place, using a new name (As per Mark's > wishes) and continuing development in a direction that Digium currently isn't > heading all do not harm Digium in any way. What these things DO create though > is an alternative PBX which natively supports Digium hardware as well as > providing features to end users that Digium is either unwilling or unable to > provide in Asterisk. > > Hmmmm... Another piece of software that works with Digium's hardware but > doesn't require any of Digium's resources to maintain, with the added > advantage of having more features than the software that Digium already gives > away for free as a loss leader to sell their hardware... Can someone please > explain how this "works against Digium"??
It could possibly hurt ABE sales. Sangoma and Govarion are hurting the hardware sales. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Biz mailing list Asterisk-Biz@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
