Re: [asterisk-biz] Skype for Asterisk.

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Jason Parker <jparker@digium.com> wrote:

Trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 16:00 -0400, Steve Totaro wrote:
>
>> From the Digium Press Release:
>>
>> "Working together with Skype, our goal is to help businesses boost
>> productivity and reap the rewards of feature-rich telephony software,
>> all while saving a substantial amount of money," said Danny Windham,
>> CEO of Digium, the creator and sponsor of Asterisk."
>>
>> I was under the impression that Mark Spencer was "the creator" (if
>> someone had to be named), maybe my theories on the whole Adtran
>> created Digium on the down low are more than just theories?
>>
>
> digium is the creator not the CEO.  That is how I read their meaning.
>
>>

Digium is not the CEO?  What?  Okay, maybe that's a stretch, but...

My point is that sometimes an initial reading of something is not always the
correct one.  It is often very wise to re-read something before making a hasty
decision about it..

Agreed.  Haste makes waste, and things can be written in the same way but have totally different meanings, but the Adtran "conspiracy" is very real.

I was told by a former Digium employee that Adtran was a major investor in Digium, along with Mark's parents.  The old code ONLY supported Adtran equipment in it's intfancy.  All hearsay, and taken as such.  I am still trying to get a hold of Asterisk .3 which supposedly was totally geared for Adtran.  If so, READMEs and comments in the code might be pretty interesting. 

Then the migration of the the top brass at Adtran to Digium confirmed there had to be something to the hearsay.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro