Chris Burgy

Well the intent is to keep it as it was with 4.3. So the core of the platform remains open source as it was before. Some things are changing though. An example is we are porting over a management interface we built for our Ooma Enterprise platform (Voxter acquisition which was built on OS) but that'll be closed source for commercial customers since we spent a lot of development time building it. So y'all can do whatever you want with Monster UI (we will deprecate that eventually for commercial customers and we've rebuilt a good portion of that into a more modern UI). The foundational code should be the same for the repo we manage. We've largely gotten to a point where most of the development effort is around ancillary closed-source applications. 5.4, for our commercial customers, is a LTS release and Ooma is going to move there (we are on 5.3 currently) later this fall/winter. I can imagine in the future we do release further updates but they are likely to be minimal (things like certain FS, Kamilio, CouchDB, etc. updates) that constitute a dot release for us. I hope that helps. It's a great foundational platform to build off and for FWIW, we solely interact with the platform via all the APIs. We built all of our own IP all around that foundation with the use of the closed-source modules to help with scaling the platform and getting access to some of the new features (e.g. Qubicle - which is the refactored ACDC that was closed source before we acquired 2600hz).

We did go through the motions with our legal team (obviously we have inside counsel with a handful of attorneys and outside counsel to also consult). Unfortunately, because 2600hz let the trademark lapse a long time ago, it's a sticky situation. Is what it is and just one of those things we had to roll with the punches on. We even had marketing look at other naming conventions but that's a whole different situation with trademarks. I think everyone that knows 2600hz understands what it was and new customers don't frankly care about the Kazoo branding. They are paying for a solution from 2600hz so that is good enough for them since it's all hidden anyways. I appreciate the comment though. We wished we could've continued on with the platform name we all have known over the years.

We officially approved releasing an OS version of 5.4 as a Senior Leadership Team about 3 weeks ago. Product management is working with engineering on this as we had to split the OS and closed-source repos. As you probably know, 2600hz pivoted years ago to having closed sourced / commercially licensed components as the company couldn't survive without generating revenue and OS wasn't doing that especially compared to the fully commercially licensed competitors of 2600hz (Netsapiens, Alianza, Broadsoft, Metaswitch and RingCentral/Intermedia/etc coming from the UCaaS space with a pure reseller model). All the closed source modules will remain such with an increasing number of those ported from the Ooma side. To be transparent, Ooma's priority has been porting over our intellectual property we built (our desktop, mobile, video conferencing, chat and custom scaling fixes) for the hundreds of commercially licensed customers of 2600hz that have wanted to tap into the tens of millions of dollars we've invested over the years as the largest operator of the platform. That being said, I'd venture to guess it'll probably be in the next 4-8 weeks as engineering has been slowly chipping away at it behind the scenes over the last 2 years and they are in a state where they are generally ready. It's not going to come with much documentation. There are significant improvements in the 5.X family compared to 4.3 although some of those for scaling are tied to closed source modules that have long existed. It was a bit complicated when we acquired 2600hz as they had pivoted their strategy to still having open source but tying it to the new marketplace and there was still a lot of work to be done. They were pretty focused on their commercially licensed customers. That being said, we recognize the value of open source as that is where Ooma started years ago with the platform and then we wanted 2600hz to continue to survive and make money so we entered into a relationship where we could compensate them in a meaningful way to help fund all the developers (the majority of the company was and is R&D resources). Hope that helps! This wasn't purposeful. That site was tied to a credit card we didn't know about in the acquisition, it expired and the hosting provider deleted everything. So we had no way to recover it. We would've gladly left it up (like prior KazooCon videos on youtube). Do see my prior post on open source though. We also can't use Kazoo anymore as the trademark lapsed years ago (another neat thing we wound up discovering) and another company snagged it and wouldn't sell it to Ooma.