On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 18:39 -0500, Steve Totaro wrote:
> 
> 
> On Jan 17, 2008 6:26 PM, Alex Pilosov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>         On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Brian West wrote:
>         
>         > You shouldn't have to contact Digium for such use cases as
>         "Asterisk
>         > Compatible" or "Works with Asterisk".
>         
>         in defense of digium, blame google for this. 
>         
>         digium has to protect its trademark. google's only mechanism
>         is to filter
>         based on trademark and allow use permitted by trademark owner
>         only. this
>         isn't digium's fault.
>         
>         -alex
> 
> That is BS.  Obviously all the products that "Work with Windows" do
> not have this issue or Adwords that use Windows.  The same is true for
> basically all phone systems.  
> 
> Digium initiated this.  I suspect it came from the Adtran/Digium guys
> that just don't get Open Source. 
> 
Steve they don't call it Vulture capital because of their kind hearted
nature :)



> To be approved you must agree to only sell Digium hardware or make
> some kind of special case.  When I first started with Asterisk, one of
> the main points was that it was vendor neutral.  
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve Totaro
> 
> 


Dave





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