[asterisk-dev] digium closing the source?

[Denis Smirnov]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 09:30:29AM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote:

EG> Please keep in mind that, despite that they released the source
EG> under the GPL, they *still* can have a proprietary[sp] version of
EG> Asterisk which they sell which can have more features than the
EG> normal GPLed Asterisk and they *still* can one day say "We will
EG> stop releasing the software from now on". 

Digium _can't_ do that. It kill business of selling Digium hardware at
least. And if that would done, in one hour would be many-many forks :)

Digium _needs_ GPL'ed Asterisk.

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