[Asterisk-Users] RE: Business Edition

[Jay Milk]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee Howard [mailto:faxguy at howardsilvan.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 11:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] RE: Business Edition
> 
> Any consultant, business, or person that intends to reliably sustain 
> ...
> 
> As for the dual-license issue... there are businesses out 
> there that may ...
> understand this, and I think that it's only natural.  What I don't 
> understand, though, is why the community's gratitude towards Digium 
> should be anything more than what Digium's benevolence was 
> towards them.
> 
> normal.  BUT, what is this?  My contribution will not be accepted 
> without a royalty-free disclaimer for Digium to use my work without 
> compensation in their proprietary-licensed fork.  This is 
> what I do not 
> like.
> 
> or nominal amount.  Or at least trade me in work.  Give me something 
> back of similar value...

How many lines of code have you contributed to asterisk?  How many lines
of code were there when Digium GPL'd it?
- or -
Are you using Asterisk in a production environment?  If yes, how much
would a commercial solution have cost you?  How much $$/time do you have
in contributing code to asterisk?

Who is getting the better end of the deal?

By OS'ing Asterisk, Digium has given many folks the means to earn a
living -- there are independent consultants, integrators, installers,
calling card and VOIP businesses all built around Asterisk.  YOU are
getting some reward out of it, be it monetary or otherwise.  If you
contribute, others will benefit, just as you benefit from others'
contributions.  And Digium will sell the ABE and will have the cashflow
to support the infrastructure -- mailing lists, cvs, and their full-time
asterisk programmers...