Well and when their users will request more features they'll earn some $$$ I guess that was also expected.
Remember, open source is for users but businesses are for businesses... usually unless you're a not-for-profit Martin On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Tzafrir Cohen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 09:21:36PM -0500, Martin wrote: >> Because you're thinking as a tech geek and not as a businessman. >> They want to build company awarness and sell the complete package and >> that's why they have their own branded ISO. > > Sure. If I were to think like a businessman, I would say that they waste > tons of needless effort maintaining a complete distribution and tracking > multiple versions of Asterisk. Those resources would have been better > spent on supporting users of AsteriskNow, Trixbox, and plain old > Asterisk installations. > > This also increases the barirer of entry to use their product, > eventually: their users will expect them to re-implement every feature > found in Asterisk. For instance: how do you install their product along > with a Sangoma card? > > I've seen this happen with BriStuff. It has an interesting set of fixes. > Many of them are valid (or were, at the time). But Junghanns have opted > to maintain a complete distribution, and thus increasing their cost of > supporting it. > > (And if anybody wonders: yes, the same logic applies for including DAHDI > into mainline kernel) > > -- > Tzafrir Cohen > icq#16849755 jabber:[email protected] > +972-50-7952406 mailto:[email protected] > http://www.xorcom.com iax:[email protected]/tzafrir > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
