[asterisk-biz] 2008 Predictions

[Scott Plante]

Digium owns the copyright, but licensed the code under GPL. So if Digium
quit the open source project to only improve a proprietary version, the
project would just fork and others would most likely carry on with that.
As it turns out, the project has already forked:
  http://wiki.openpbx.org/tiki-index.php

So Asterisk users who want to remain open source would likely switch to
that project. They wouldn't have to re-write Asterisk. However, because
of this, Digium is
very unlikely to quit open source. Besides, I'd say Mark Spencer would
have to be bought out first because he'd never allow it.

Scott

C. Savinovich wrote:
>>>> Digium's value is ownership of the copyright on Asterisk code.
>>>>         
>
> Yes Alex, but why will anybody pay top money for that code, if it can be
> written again by other people? (albeit with effort)
>
> Code is not a unique item.
>  
> C. Savinovich
>