Scott Laird wrote:
They've spent years building Asterisk and giving it away for free. In exchange, we've paid the markup on their PCI cards as a sort of proxy for paying for Asterisk itself, and we encourage others to do the same. It's our way of keeping Asterisk economically viable while waiting for the VoIP market to mature. Digium gave us Asterisk, along with relatively inexpensive hardware, and in exchange, we've given them a bit more cash then we strictly had to.
There's another take on this, something that Mark Spencer told a few of us asterisk freaks who had gathered for a meal together at VON this Spring.
Someone said something about the "high" markup on the card, given that everyone knows it's a $10 part.
"It's a high markup until the phone call comes in looking for support. Once that happens, most of the time we then go to a deficit on that sale, because most newbies take a lot of time to support, and if they buy it from us, they get to call and we get to help them."
I didn't see any mails telling us what Diginetworks support told the user who sent the post. That would be an interesting data point.
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