Question,
What makes them useless? What does the xp100 have that others are missing, just wondering. thanks
Simple its a winmodem. This means that absolutely raw data is handed over to the CPU, not pre-processed data like you would get from any other type of modem. * was developed to use 'off-the-shelf' components, which doesn't necessarily mean ots cards.
The * dev team spends an incredible amount of time trying to create more apps and hammer more functionality and stability into the code. They work their buts off to make * happen. In return, they have only developed drivers for ONE particular chipset, which happens to be a winmodem chipset, typically built into a cheap piece of hardware, making * compatible hardware easy - relatively speaking - to come by. They do this for several reasons as I will attempt to explain in - vain - hopes this question won't get asked again for at least another week.
First, Digium is a hardware business. Having only developed drivers for the type of hardware they make is perfectly sensible. If you were the richest man on earth and you decided to buy Intel and Microsoft, would you then tell your Microsoft geeks to make sure Windows ran better on AMD processors, or Intel processors? Digium makes a living off selling * compatible hardware. In return they develop the most amazing piece of open source software to come along since Linux itself.
Second, since most people pursuing the idea of an open source software based PBX are the typically the same people who have to fight budget wars with their PHB's, Digium wanted to be able make the hardware and keep the price low. If Digium had produced expensive hardware, that did not have an even cheaper 'clone' available, would you be considering running *? Even if the software is free, if it costs you $1,200 just for the card to interface with one single POTS line, would you use it?
Third, there is NOTHING stopping YOU from developing the drivers for * to use your nice voice modem. In fact, please do! * is open source, meaning you can pretty much do anything with it you want to - barring whatever its license says you can't. Make improvements yourself instead of screaming at some of the coolest people in the world that they are idiots for not supporting your hardware. At least one company besides Digium has developed * compatible drivers for their equipment and contributed this code back to the community/Digium - why can't you do the same?
Finally, read the archives as everything I've just said has been said before, several times.
Please don't flame me for all this. I just wanted to contribute my $0.02 to Digium. :)
-Chris
PS. Kudos to Digium and the rest of the * dev team for such an awesome product - the hardware and the software :)
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