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

[Brian Capouch]

William Waites wrote:

> 
> So Digium has leveraged the community to build for them a 
> proprietary product. Correct?
> 
> Nice.
> 

Give me a break.

Digium has Open-Sourced their primary intellectual property and given it 
to the community.  They spend a good portion of their corporate cashflow 
on programmers and support personnel to keep the Open Source project 
moving forward.   The current Asterisk CVS and Stable code bases are 
100% Open Source, and will be forever, as per the terms of the GPL.

Yet never to fear, you are right there in everyone's faces, trying to 
impugn Mark and Digium and the infrastructure that has brought forth 
this wonderful program for us to use FOR FREE, simply because they are 
trying to find a way to use their IP as a means of supporting their 
corporate mission.

I can't decide whether it's your audacity or your cynicism that is more 
repugnant.  I guess each reader will have to decide for himself.

B.