On Thursday 23 October 2003 13:32, Ethan wrote: > > 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?
Linux is about wiping out the businesses which support Linux? Sounds kind of self-defeating to me. > 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. Give an inch, take a mile. The next argument advanced will be that anyone serious will need the multi-T1 card, so cloning the single port T1 card isn't that big a deal. And ditto for the TDM400P and the assorted piggyback modules. This isn't some other company competing with the project; this is Digium, which is _supporting_ the project. > Why not just ask the winmodem hackers to donate money instead? Sounds like a dot-bomb business plan: 1) Ask the community to donate money to us. ..... 3) Profit! -Tilghman _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
