<div>Brian, fortunately or unfortunately, business decisions don't go hand in hand with technical decisions. Khomp is a small (60 employee) brazilian company starting to learn how to deal with opensource products. They have made great improvement, mostly because I have been putting pressure, onto moving forward with FreeSWITCH™. I am and will ever be a big sponsor of the project and I now have a small participation on the company, therefore, pushing Khomp even more towards sponsoring FreeSWITCH™. I can bet they are going to be sponsoring ClueCon next year.</div>
<div><br></div><div>You have been following this process that has been taking over 2 years and a lot of effort from my own personal time in favor of having more commercial initiatives join the cause on other parts of the world besides the US and Europe. We are finally getting somewhere and Khomp has been helping place FreeSWITCH™ on the map in Brazil and soon on the rest of Latin America. They have put pressure on local branch of Linux Magazine for them to publish a translated version of MCs article (which in fact was published), I have been invited several times to several speeches to promote FreeSWITCH™ and the buzz has started to spread in the market.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Khomp comes from the Dialogic world where API is the big secret to be kept and it is indeed a big cultural change to support opensource products specially when this market started with Digium, which posed as a big threat for all hard card manufacturers.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anyway, this was an attempt to expose a bit of the "whys" on the decision the company has made and try to improve the way ppl have been looking at this small company that has great technical expertise and aims at having high quality products instead of cheap cards with bad design. I congratulate Sangoma for doing the same despite of us being competition (good competition for all I care). :-)</div>
<div><br></div><div>I am sorry for the big email but I deeply involved with the FreeSWITCH™ success inside of Khomp and there's a lot at stake with my own career. Safe to say that we have been having nothing but great experiences with the development of mod_khomp and the community. The developers are very glad with Tony and core devs assistance. For that, I thank you.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div>João Mesquita<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Nyamul Hassan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mnhassan@usa.net">mnhassan@usa.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Good question!<br>
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On 2010-10-19, Brian West <<a href="mailto:brian@freeswitch.org">brian@freeswitch.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> Why wasn't their api put into FreeTDM?<br>
><br>
> /b<br>
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> On Oct 19, 2010, at 7:10 AM, João Mesquita wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Keep in mind that there is a Brazilian company called Khomp too. They have<br>
>> good quality hardware at decent price. Might be a good option for a try<br>
>> out.<br>
>><br>
>> mod_khomp is being actively developed and soon to be release under the git<br>
>> head.<br>
>><br>
>> Regards,<br>
>> João Mesquita<br>
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