[Asterisk-Biz] SS7 available for Asterisk

[Sergey Kuznetsov]

Markuu,


You will support Digium and Mark Spencer itself. But how about other 
developers who spent countless nights to improve the
Asterisk and send the patches to Mark? Hoes they have any monetary 
contribution at all?

To be honestly it is very unfair that Mark can sell the Asterisk under 
the commercial license, and many core Asterisk developers
( who is not working for Digium ) for will receive 0 dollars and 0 cents 
for their time.

I do understand that they can use Asterisk at home. I can use it for my 
needs. But still I feel unfairness in this situation, and I cannot
shut up myself. I wouldn't say a word if the project was solely under 
GPL, and I would even donate to the developers, but if it's under
dual license - it's unfair.


Markku Korpi wrote:

> Michael is completely correct.
> We analyze each SS7 project inquiry individually and provide our quote 
> to them based on the network structure and amount of work, 
> maintenance, etc.  We did this for many inquiries over the past few 
> days. In small systems the price per E1/T1 is obviously different than 
> in large ones. The quote someone was kind enough to publish was a 
> small system license fee that included SS7 SW maintenance for one 
> year. I hope that clarifies.
>
> What does it mean that we are providing our solution outside of GPL?
> It means that we are and will be supporting Asterisk by both using the 
> Digium HW and by paying license fees to Digium. This is the way and 
> strategy of our small team to fund contributions by others (and by 
> ourselves!) to Asterisk Open Source. Additionally this is our 
> contribution in bringing Asterisk in carrier space and hopefully quite 
> substantial over the time.
>
> As Steve Underwood has written on other threads earlier, it should be 
> quite obvious that we do not want to publish our SS7 code, because we 
> are responsible for the its operation in each project and do not want 
> that anyone else makes modifications in it. This is also requirement 
> for certifications.
>
> Markku
>
>
> Michael Bielicki wrote:
>
>> Depends,
>> if a product has a hefty service part, as in the case of doing
>> different SS7 implementations per country, which often is a basic
>> requirement, it is a really tricky thing to specify an off the shelf
>> price. On the other hand I tend to agree that not publishing a price
>> for a boxed product is a good way to rid yourself of potential
>> customers
>>
>> cheers
>> Michael
>>
>> On 4/13/05, Brian West <brian.west at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> So can I assume from that response that you don't have a published
>>>> price
>>>> list?
>>>>
>>>> - Jeff
>>>>
>>>
>>> Usually when a company doesn't post prices they wanna get you thru the
>>> door and sell it to you at the TOP dollar you're willing to pay.
>>>
>>> :P
>>>
>>> /b
>>> PS: I dislike companies that don't post prices on their websites.
>>>
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