[Asterisk-Users] CE certification for Europe

[d hinton]

first off the majority of work on the cards was made by zapata guys, let's
give them the credit. secondly are you talking about hardward support or
asterisk software support?
hi
let's deal with drivers first: the original was released by zapata guy's as
GLP'ed software and any derivertive of that work sould also be GPL'ed. and
yes we would support any drivers built by us and maybe even some that are
not. but that's what open source is about. a group of people working
together to make a piece of software the best it could be.

now on to the hardware support; digium provides one hour support with their
cards. that would be about $700 per hour for support. thanks but no thanks.
times are too hard for those prices :-D
also we're getting off base here, my intent was NOT to bash digium for their
prices but rather find a way to get people without the huge budget of a
great company like yours, to be able to add to the project in a meaningful
way. few can at the current pricing schema, that's why the original makers
sold it at ~$250 USD and released it GPL in the first place. just my two
cents
dwayne

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Critchfield" <critch at basesys.com>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] CE certification for Europe


> On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 13:37, d hinton wrote:
> > ok, that's what i've been asking all along. for cert numbers for FCC.
> > as for cert process. it's easier then many folks have stated. in most
places
> > a mere statement of conformity by manufacturer will do (cost in US is
~$900)
> > however testing is still the way to go, as if any thing should happen
you
> > would get shafted without those reports on file. ie; insurance claims
and
> > other things like that.
> > AGAIN i had no intention of calling digium guys liars! also diguim you
will
> > need to change your responsible party info or they will fine the crap
out of
> > you :)
> >
> > NOW on to the price and further development!
> > i still think the cost of entry needs to come down so more developers
can
> > afford to buy the cards! as i said before we are producing our own
because
> > 1500 * 4 cards would cost too much. not including our dev. time. these
cards
> > can be sold for under $850 and still leave room for profit.
> >
> > And to the cat who i know will say something like "it helps support
further
> > development" B$ there are plenty of projects that make it on less so
save it
> > these are tough eco times :-) and most IT guys are broke! help us poor
guys
> > out.
>
> The price of the digium card is much less than others at market now.
> Also beware making price your differentiator, that causes even tighter
> times as the PC market found out. Not to mention, your thought of what
> profit is, is based on your investment. If the amount of time digium
> spent on makeing the new PCI cards, and the drivers for them was worth
> nothing then you would be close to justified. Do you feel your company
> is willing to field the level of support digium has, or Mark himself?
>
> For me and the company I work for, unless you provided a lot more
> support than Mark and digium does, I would still buy from digium even
> with that proposed price difference.
> --
> Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>
>
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