[Asterisk-Users] Business Edition

[Erik Espinoza]

I once tried to call in support for digium for 4 IAXy's that I
purchased ($400). They told me to e-mail this mailing list. I
appreciate all the hard work that they did to produce asterisk, I just
don't trust this company to support anything. Just my $.02.

Erik

On 7/18/05, Andrew Kohlsmith <akohlsmith-asterisk at benshaw.com> wrote:
> On Monday 18 July 2005 13:20, Kevin Walsh wrote:
> > Absolutely not.  If you find that you need $995 worth of support, some
> > time in the future, then I'm sure that you can obtain it from one of
> > several providers.  I don't think it's worth paying up-front for
> > something you probably won't need, but that's really for you to decide.
> 
> To some the stability and repeatability of ABE is well worth the money.
> Contractors can be good, and with a contractor I'm sure you can get the same
> level of stability and repeatability as ABE.  I think that is particuarly WHY
> Digium's trying to create it...  it's a successful service and they want in
> on it.  And honestly, Digium's got the resources to pull it off very nicely.
> Your regular contractor (me, for instance) can't realistically provide 24/7
> support on his own.  Digium can.  Your regular contractor can't realistically
> fix any problem that may happen on his own.  Digium can.  Kudos to them, I
> say.
> 
> I dunno... people seem all up in arms about this but honestly I fail to see
> the problem.  Digium is doing what they can to make money and provide
> services while keeping Asterisk as free and openly developed as possible.  I
> have (small amounts of) code contributed to Asterisk and I am working on
> more.  Digium and Asterisk have given me a lot of newfound freedom and
> flexibility and power in my phone system.  I appreciate that, and I don't
> feel that this dual-licensing or granting of a nonexclusive perpetual license
> to the bits and pieces of my code is too much to ask.  My bits and pieces
> would be worthless without the bits and pieces and chunks and slabs of code
> that others have provided, and it'd all be useless without the framework that
> Digium came out with.
> 
> If you don't want or don't like ABE, don't use it.  Nobody is cramming it down
> your throat.
> 
> -A.
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