On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 06:43:51PM -0400, Steve Totaro wrote: > Maybe next they will charge $250 for "conference bridge" capabilities. > It's a joke to cripple things that can be enabled by flicking a > switch. Your system comes with eight ports of VM but for another $250 > we can give you 12......
"Feature pricing" (also called "value pricing") is a time honored tradition -- especially in the telecom business. Ever wonder why your telco charged you $2.50 a month for call waiting when it involved exactly, let me see, right: *no hardware at all*? Because they could. And more to the point: because Nortel charged *them* $20k a year[1] to enable the feature in the generic, and they were damn sure gonna get that money back from someone. In this case, *they give away the entire source package. For free*. I like you a lot, Steve, generally, but it feels a bit like you're whining, on this one, to me... Cheers, -- jra [1] These features were indeed charged for, though usually in packages; I don't have exact numbers -- though I *do* have a DMS 100 Feature Portfolio on my bookshelf, so I could give you a feature number, if you like. -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Joseph Stalin) _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
