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<p class=MsoNormal>>>>I was told by a former Digium employee that
Adtran was a major investor in Digium, along with Mark's parents.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal> Oh man… That would have been my ideal
situation… be 20 years old, approach my dad and tell him “Daddy, I
got this great program I could write, give me a couple million
dollars”… oh boy…well… God has a purpose…
ha ha <o:p></o:p></p>
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asterisk-biz-bounces@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces@lists.digium.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Steve Totaro<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 25, 2008 6:27 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [asterisk-biz] Skype for Asterisk.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Jason Parker <<a
href="mailto:jparker@digium.com">jparker@digium.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:<br>
> On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 16:00 -0400, Steve Totaro wrote:<br>
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>> From the Digium Press Release:<br>
>><br>
>> "Working together with Skype, our goal is to help businesses
boost<br>
>> productivity and reap the rewards of feature-rich telephony software,<br>
>> all while saving a substantial amount of money," said Danny
Windham,<br>
>> CEO of Digium, the creator and sponsor of Asterisk."<br>
>><br>
>> I was under the impression that Mark Spencer was "the
creator" (if<br>
>> someone had to be named), maybe my theories on the whole Adtran<br>
>> created Digium on the down low are more than just theories?<br>
>><br>
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> digium is the creator not the CEO. That is how I read their meaning.<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Digium is not the CEO? What? Okay, maybe that's
a stretch, but...<br>
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My point is that sometimes an initial reading of something is not always the<br>
correct one. It is often very wise to re-read something before making a
hasty<br>
decision about it..<o:p></o:p></p>
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Agreed. Haste makes waste, and things can be written in the same way but
have totally different meanings, but the Adtran "conspiracy" is very
real.<br>
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I was told by a former Digium employee that Adtran was a major investor in
Digium, along with Mark's parents. The old code ONLY supported Adtran
equipment in it's intfancy. All hearsay, and taken as such. I am
still trying to get a hold of Asterisk .3 which supposedly was totally geared
for Adtran. If so, READMEs and comments in the code might be pretty
interesting. <br>
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Then the migration of the the top brass at Adtran to Digium confirmed there had
to be something to the hearsay.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Steve Totaro <o:p></o:p></p>
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