On April 6, 2005 10:32 pm, Jared Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 20:22 -0400, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: > > I guess; but in my mind Digium improved upon the Zaptel design and closed > > it. Not exactly what the original poster was getting at. > > You have a point, but I for one am glad they're building good hardware. > Let's not forget that the money Digium makes from selling hardware cards > (even if they are "closed") helps sponsor Asterisk development. I think > the recent announcement about Kevin being hired (congrats Kevin!) is > possible, for the most part, because Digium continues to sell their > hardware cards.
Let me be clear -- I never said that improving on the design and closing it was bad. That is fully within their right and it has worked for them! I am ONLY suggesting that saying that Zaptel was a success because of the open design is perhaps a little misleading. -A. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Dev mailing list Asterisk-Dev@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev
