and what happens when then turn right around and expect digium to support this?
personally, i think the $99 is high, but hey, i'm not the one who's invested all my time/energy/$$ into this like Mark has. just remember, the free/linux/etc *about* stuff is the base software, don't start applying that to hardware. sheesh when was the last time you got a free monitor with your slackware cd <G> 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? > > 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 _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
