[Asterisk-Users] Sangoma VS. Digium

Eric Bishop asterisk.eric at gmail.com
Thu Mar 31 05:57:34 MST 2005


True. I think Digium's USA bias is clearly demonstrated by their lack
of a BRI ISDN product. Most of the rest of the world use it in
abudnace yet Digium do not see fit to service this market because it
is not big in the US..... very poor...


On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:32:40 +0900 (JST), Isamar Maia
<isamar at isamarmaia.org> wrote:
> 
> > Isamar Maia wrote:
> > >
> > > I don't understand this *love* for Digium. Digium is a commercial
> > > institution, period.
> > >
> >
> > Yes, but.  They are a commercial institution which took an enormous risk
> > by giving away for free what is undeniably their most valuable product.
> >
> So, if Linus Torvalds had a company I would need to buy products from him?
> If they assumed this "risk", great! I will remember to send a postcard in
> the Christmas to them.
> More hardware companies support Asterisk with Zap drivers, cheaper will be
> the boards, better quality will be provided and in the end of the day, the
> community will have all the benefits. The name of it is competition.
> Or it's a monopoly?
> Maybe Japan or other countries with own crazy standards are not a
> commercial interest of Digium like they are for Avaya, Dialogic, Aculab
> and stuff... the "open and free" competition should happen because the
> world is not USA and AFAIK it's GPL.
> 
> > I'm sorry you have trouble understanding this.  I feel that for many of
> > us it is pretty clear.
> >
> Yes. I see. Very clear.
> 
> Isamar
> 
> 
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