<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 17, 2008 6:26 PM, Alex Pilosov <<a href="mailto:alex@pilosoft.com">alex@pilosoft.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Brian West wrote:<br><br>> You shouldn't have to contact Digium for such use cases as "Asterisk<br>> Compatible" or "Works with Asterisk".<br></div>in defense of digium, blame google for this.
<br><br>digium has to protect its trademark. google's only mechanism is to filter<br>based on trademark and allow use permitted by trademark owner only. this<br>isn't digium's fault.<br><font color="#888888"><br>
-alex<br></font></blockquote><div><br>That is BS. Obviously all the products that "Work with Windows" do not have this issue or Adwords that use Windows. The same is true for basically all phone systems. <br>
<br>Digium initiated this. I suspect it came from the Adtran/Digium guys that just don't get Open Source. <br><br>To be approved you must agree to only sell Digium hardware or make some kind of special case. When I first started with Asterisk, one of the main points was that it was vendor neutral.
<br> <br>Thanks,<br>Steve Totaro<br></div></div><br>