Many large companies do that.
They use
Glad it worked out for you Mike.
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Another perfect example of corporate contribution to open source would
be FreeSWITCH itself. I am an employee of Barracuda Networks, and part of
my job is to contribute to FreeSWITCH. This is also the case for some
other members of the core FreeSWITCH team. We spend considerable time
working on open source software, but also depend on the contributions of the
community at large. Open source and corporate involvement seem to me to
be a perfect match with winners on both sides. There will always be those
people and companies that will try to take advantage of this without
contributing back, but this is nearly impossible. There is inevitably bug
reports and fixes that will come from these organizations when they have
issues, or contracting revenue to some member of the community when they need
help. We all contribute in some way. This is how open source
ecosystems work, requiring both selfless personal and corporate involvement.
FreeSWITCH was designed from the start in both architecture and
licensing to attract the most of both personal and corporate use as a way to
build a larger more vibrant community of developers building a wide range of
solutions. Over the last year we have seen the release of Cudatel (http://www.cudatel.com), of a book (https://www.packtpub.com/), open source web
user interfaces such as 2600hz project blue.box (http://www.2600hz.org)
and FusionPBX (http://www.fusionpbx.com/).
Features added this year such as T.38 support, Broadsoft SCA support, and
sip high availability support would all not have happened without corporate
support, and FreeTDM is now maintained by Sangoma. The addition and
maintenance of many freeswitch modules are now supported entirely by
individuals such as mod_vmd and mod_avmd contributed by Eric des Courtis and mod_limit/hash/db by
Rupa Schomaker.
I'd personally like to thank all
members of the FreeSWITCH community for all your ongoing support.
Mike