[asterisk-dev] digium closing the source?

[Anton]

May someone from Digium just write an answer to the thread 
and close the question?

On 4 September 2006 13:10, Denis Smirnov wrote:
> 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.