[asterisk-biz] 2008 Predictions

[Scott Plante]

BTW: It seems openpbx.org is called CallWeaver now.
http://www.callweaver.org/wiki/CallWeaver
Scott

Scott Plante wrote:
> 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.
>