[Asterisk-Users] digitnetworks card issues?

[Brian Capouch]

Scott Laird wrote:

> They've spent years building Asterisk and giving it away for free.  In 
> exchange, we've paid the markup on their PCI cards as a sort of proxy 
> for paying for Asterisk itself, and we encourage others to do the same. 
>  It's our way of keeping Asterisk economically viable while waiting for 
> the VoIP market to mature.  Digium gave us Asterisk, along with 
> relatively inexpensive hardware, and in exchange, we've given them a bit 
> more cash then we strictly had to.
> 
> 

There's another take on this, something that Mark Spencer told a few of 
us asterisk freaks who had gathered for a meal together at VON this Spring.

Someone said something about the "high" markup on the card, given that 
everyone knows it's a $10 part.

"It's a high markup until the phone call comes in looking for support. 
Once that happens, most of the time we then go to a deficit on that 
sale, because most newbies take a lot of time to support, and if they 
buy it from us, they get to call and we get to help them."

I didn't see any mails telling us what Diginetworks support told the 
user who sent the post.  That would be an interesting data point.

B.