[Asterisk-Users] Open Source Billing Software

[Moody]

Not to feed the fire - but I would be interested to hear about open
source projects that arn't free. It's pretty hard to charge for
something you legally have to provide the source for...

Some try with subscriptions, but citing Sveasoft I'd suggest that
model is both unacceptable (IMHO) and unsuccessful.

The successful companies based on open source projects (like Digium,
Redhat) tend to combine consulting, hardware or other services/items
which have a value (increased value?) because of the open source
product.

On another level, it often provides value to its authors which is an
answer  to the earlier asked question about why offer profit creating
items for free -  Areski (of the AreskiCC fame) is an excelent example
- I'm sure he could find a job consulting/developing for Asterisk with
many companies....


On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 19:40:07 -0500, Andrew Latham <lathama at gmail.com> wrote:
> PHP and FPDF.org would be a quick fix.
> 
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:47:37 -0600, Christopher Snell
> <chris.snell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:53:03 +1000, Rod Bacon
> > <rod.bacon at empoweredcomms.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > > What I would like to know is has anyone found an open-source billing
> > > platform that performs basic billing functionality (pre/post) from
> > > RADIUS and/or Asterisk CDR and is written (well-written) in either PHP
> > > or PERL.
> >
> > What features and functionality is needed for such a system?  I've
> > been thinking about using Perl to write LaTeX source files, which can
> > then be compiled into pretty PostScript and PDF paper bills or plain
> > text that can be sent out by e-mail.
> >
> > Chris
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