I once tried to call in support for digium for 4 IAXy's that I purchased ($400). They told me to e-mail this mailing list. I appreciate all the hard work that they did to produce asterisk, I just don't trust this company to support anything. Just my $.02.
Erik On 7/18/05, Andrew Kohlsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 18 July 2005 13:20, Kevin Walsh wrote: > > Absolutely not. If you find that you need $995 worth of support, some > > time in the future, then I'm sure that you can obtain it from one of > > several providers. I don't think it's worth paying up-front for > > something you probably won't need, but that's really for you to decide. > > To some the stability and repeatability of ABE is well worth the money. > Contractors can be good, and with a contractor I'm sure you can get the same > level of stability and repeatability as ABE. I think that is particuarly WHY > Digium's trying to create it... it's a successful service and they want in > on it. And honestly, Digium's got the resources to pull it off very nicely. > Your regular contractor (me, for instance) can't realistically provide 24/7 > support on his own. Digium can. Your regular contractor can't realistically > fix any problem that may happen on his own. Digium can. Kudos to them, I > say. > > I dunno... people seem all up in arms about this but honestly I fail to see > the problem. Digium is doing what they can to make money and provide > services while keeping Asterisk as free and openly developed as possible. I > have (small amounts of) code contributed to Asterisk and I am working on > more. Digium and Asterisk have given me a lot of newfound freedom and > flexibility and power in my phone system. I appreciate that, and I don't > feel that this dual-licensing or granting of a nonexclusive perpetual license > to the bits and pieces of my code is too much to ask. My bits and pieces > would be worthless without the bits and pieces and chunks and slabs of code > that others have provided, and it'd all be useless without the framework that > Digium came out with. > > If you don't want or don't like ABE, don't use it. Nobody is cramming it down > your throat. > > -A. > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
