[asterisk-biz] FWD moving to $30 annual membership fee

[randulo]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 3:50 PM, C. Savinovich
<c.savinovich at itntelecom.com> wrote:
>   I think one of the worst enemies of the industry is the expectation users
> have that they should get everything free.

I don't expect things to always be free, but first of all, FWD works
well enough to be free IMO, not better. Second, in response to some of
the comments on business model, many of us bought a phone or other hw
from Pulver. The biggest value added of FWD was actually the forum,
manned mostly by users. In fact, users that helped people should be
immediately offered at least one  year free.

The only thing FWD brought to me was awareness of asterisk and voip.
Over a period of three years, I probably used it as many times.
However, I was registered with qualify and it was down (UNREACHABLE)
*often*.

Kudos to them for the free service. As a paid product, it will be
evaluated in comparison with other paid services. I think you can get
a real DID for less than $3/month.