[Asterisk-Users] Re: Digium Website Update: Asterisk Business Edition

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Aidan Van Dyk wrote:

> If they are "fixing" things in ABE that are broken in "Open Source", and
> not simply backing out features, they why aren't these bug fixes in the
> open source version?  

As stated in my other reply, this is very much untrue. There are no 
fixes applied to ABE (or new features, for that matter) that don't 
originate from CVS HEAD.

> I've just not been impressed with Digium's behaviour lately.  They've
> gotten quite hostile over Sangoma hardware lately, claiming that Sangoma
> (by continuing to develop, refine, and expand their hardware lines,
> which are much older than asterisk, and which asterisk was originally
> developed on) are just ripping them off.  If anything, Digium is ripping
> people off with hardware which is inferior (though I've seen claims that
> they have some good new stuff coming - excellent!).

Exactly where did you hear that Asterisk was "originally developed on 
Sangoma hardware"? Nothing could be farther from the truth; the very 
earliest Asterisk code supported some funky Voice-over-Frame-Relay 
hardware, then it was modified to support the Zapata hardware from the 
Zapata open source hardware group. Digium has never had any drivers for 
Sangoma hardware, and still doesn't. Any Asterisk support for Sangoma 
hardware has been built by Sangoma.

And yes, we do have some exciting new hardware in the works... we hope 
that you all will be as happy to buy/use it as we are to develop it!