29 Year Old Programmer May Have Caused 7 Billion Dollars Worth Of Damage.

Posted by tadelste on Apr 3, 2006 6:26 AM EDT
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Spencer is the inventor of Asterisk, a free software program that establishes phone calls over the Internet and handles voicemail, caller ID, teleconferencing and a host of novel features for the phone. With Asterisk loaded onto a computer, a decent-size company can rip out its traditional phone switch, even some of its newfangled Internet telephone gear, and say good-bye to 80% of its telecom equipment costs. Not good news for Cisco, Nortel or Avaya.

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Provocative title... cubrewer 1 1,266 Apr 3, 2006 9:40 AM
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