> what their costs are or what makes them successful. Armchair > businessmen are a dime a dozen; it doesn't help that everytime you > post to the list, you advocate products which will undercut Digium's > source of revenue.
Isn't this what Linux is about? Every asterisk box helps to cause things like the layoffs of thousands of our peers that worked for Avaya/Lucent, Nortel, and others from the commercial PBX manufacturers. Times change, and I don't think the Winmodem hack will really hurt Digum that bad. Anyone serious will probably need the T1 card, as the Intel PC is a horrible hardware platform and really doesn't handle large numbers of expansion cards properly. If my project works out, I'd be happy to contribute money to the project. My side business (unrelated to the Asterisk project totally, we run on Lucent PBX that I paid $500 each for (including one with a full Intuity Audix platform, the other had the T1/PRI card, 100+ phones total) for the business and my home and that will never change (until I find g3 definitys). Anyways, we already said with our hosting/coloc business that we will analyze all of the "free" software we utilize (MRTG, FreeBSD, Apache, inter7 products, etc) and donate to all of the projects. I gotta admit, the X100P cost was the main reason I delayed so long in even trying to mess with asterisk. Even back when I did have a job and an income :-) Why not just ask the winmodem hackers to donate money instead? _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
