[asterisk-users] Sangoma vs Digium: (was Re: ping too)

[Lacy Moore]

I was completely against the dual licensing in the beginning.  But now, I'm
leaning more towards understanding it and the importance of it, especially
as it related to US Patent laws.  We're going to find that everything is
patented in the US.  This is going to be the demise of open source in the
US.  Only with indeminifcation clauses are we going to be able to use
software.  We'll have to use software that already has already the patent
license agreements in place.  This is where the dual licensing and ABE comes
in, in my opinion.



On 10/5/07, shadowym <shadowym at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Like fixing the poor design of the TDM400P and TE110 with the newer cards
> that advertise VoiceBus.  For a company that supposedly embraces the open
> source philosophy I don't think Digium has been very forthcoming with what
> they are doing so they should not be surprised by any apparent lack of
> understanding from the community.  It seems to me like it's been and
> continues to be a one way street.  The dual licensing scheme is indicative
> of that as well.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russell Bryant [mailto:russell at digium.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 8:50 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Sangoma vs Digium: (was Re: ping too)
>
> Brian West wrote:
> > Sangoma has contributed to Asterisk in the past and they still do.
>
> Which contributions are you talking about, exactly?  I know that they paid
> someone to write app_dictate a couple of years ago, but that is the only
> thing I
> can think of that has come through since I have been involved (for a
> little
> over
> 3 years now).
>
> In that same time frame, the number of bug fixes and new things coming
> from
> Digium is many, many hundreds, and likely in the _thousands_.
>
> --
> Russell Bryant
> Software Engineer
> Digium, Inc.
>
>
>
>
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Lacy Moore
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