asterisk users - Aug 2006 - RE: Ever donate Software to Digium? If you did your afool.

I really don't understand the complaint. Fonality gets a $5 mil. 
investment for building its own system on top of Asterisk -- no 
complaint. But Mark & Co. can't get VC for their own business / 
enterprise / support architecture?

Everything that "we-all" is contributing is part of the open source 
Asterisk system, which Mark dreamed up and which continues to be an 
unbelievably exciting piece of software.

One day soon I hope programmers who work for me will contribute to the 
code base. The fact that Digium just got $13.7 mil. to keep doing what 
they're doing merely ensures that we who use the open-source base will 
all be benefiting from a stable and growing team of professionals 
pushing the project forward.

Congrats, Digium. I for one am delighted, and look forward to joining 
the "fools."

Yaakov Menken

On 8/9/06, Yaakov Menken <menken@capalon.com>
wrote:
> I really don't understand the complaint. Fonality gets a $5 mil.
> investment for building its own system on top of Asterisk -- no
> complaint. But Mark & Co. can't get VC for their own business /
> enterprise / support architecture?
>
> Everything that "we-all" is contributing is part of the open
source
> Asterisk system, which Mark dreamed up and which continues to be an
> unbelievably exciting piece of software.
>
> One day soon I hope programmers who work for me will contribute to the
> code base. The fact that Digium just got $13.7 mil. to keep doing what
> they're doing merely ensures that we who use the open-source base will
> all be benefiting from a stable and growing team of professionals
> pushing the project forward.
>
> Congrats, Digium. I for one am delighted, and look forward to joining
> the "fools."
The original post must be the biggest troll in history.

I think all of us are thankful for having Asterisk. Infact, I'm glad
that Digium is getting good $$ out of it (apart from all the hardware
sales) since many of us can't afford to pay Mark the sort of money he
deserves for his time spent writing Asterisk. I know Asterisk has
earned me a few bucks from the various installations I've done, so I'm
happy to hear this bit of news.

Of course, Asterisk is a community-supported project so my thanks also
goes to all the people that have made it what it is today. Maybe one
day soon I will be able to contribute to it (apart from a few Wiki
additions I've done).

Cheers,
Gonzalo