Darren Nickerson wrote: > Please consider this a public appeal for Digium to allow choice in the > market, rather than artificially restricting consumers' options. It's > better > for everyone, including Digium I would argue, for there to be competition. > We move a lot of your product ourselves - we'd really like to be able to be > blessed as 'official' by y'all but we're really not in favor of restricting > the consumer's choice, and applaud the efforts of Sangoma, Xorcom, and even > Rhino. The competition has raised everyone's game, led to competitive > market > pricing, and broadened Asterisk's reach and credibility.
You will need to communicate this to the people at Digium who handle reseller relations (which is certainly not me!). I understand your position, but keep in mind that this policy is in no way uncommon in the telephony industry. For example, if you sell Cisco gear and are a Cisco authorized reseller, you are not allowed to install third-party/refurbished/used/etc. components in your customers' Cisco switches/routers, because Cisco wants to ensure that they are represented well. In fact, it's really not uncommon for _any_ market where someone wants to be an 'authorized' reseller representing a manufacturer. It's one thing to be authorized to sell -solutions- from multiple vendors, but something else entirely to package components from competing vendors and still claim to be representing one of them as an 'authorized reseller'. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
