Google's DiBona Talks Open Source at AstriCon 2009

Chris DiBona, open source program manager at Google and the keynote speaker at AstriCon 2009 today, said it’s too late for Asterisk (News - Alert) to be vulnerable to those who would attack it and emphasized Google’s involvement in the open source movement.

 

DiBona, who said he was recently in Paris and Asterisk is everywhere there, called Asterisk “the great equalizer.”

 

Not Google (News - Alert) has itself released 20 million lines of source code, DiBona said open source in general “helps level the computer field.”

 

While Google is not a big Asterisk user, he said, “we like Asterisk.” And Asterisk supports Google Talk.

 

DiBona added that Google also plans to enable SIP connectivity on Google Voice in the future. He explained that Google ran into a security problem with how it did PINs for the service initially, but that it’s working to fix that so Google Voice can become friendly with Asterisk solutions.