[Asterisk-Users] CE certification for Europe

[Gregg Lebovitz]

dwayne,


I didn't interpret Tilgman's email as instigating this kind of response.
You may be smart, but I really don't buy any of your arguments. I hope
someone at your company has better business/PR sense than you.
Otherwise, you are doomed.

Gregg 

On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 15:00, d hinton wrote:
> to tilghman:
> "Then contribute already.  Don't troll the list"
> you bozoo, before you call someone a troll you should prob read the post.
> and if that's you opinion arfter that then fine, so be it. but it's always
> some punk, who got bullied on as a kid that hides behind the internet and
> slings pot-shots ;-(
> "And don't  volunteer to sell Digium's cards at a price that severely
> undercuts their product (and revenue and development)"
> 
> THESE ARE NOT DIGIUMS CARDS!!!! they are GPL'ed released by the zapata
> project: http://zapatatelephony.org try reading and learning before you
> write. and further more i never said that i would sell to the public, just
> that we COULD make these cards and sell them for $850 and still turn a
> profit. it was a hint to digium. in fact, the most expensive part only cost
> $100.00 USD. see http://www.maxim-ic.com/index.cfm
> 
> "If you can't afford $1500 for a card, you jolly well aren't
> going to be able to afford a T1 line anyway, so having the
> card would be completely irrelevant"
> at the price digium charges for the CARDS, they would cost the most of the
> whole project. for example: i can get a local T1 for ~$250/month with 100
> DID's for $56 dollars extra. and a FULL T1 backbone for $395/month see:
> http://www.theplanet.com/solutions/access.php
> in these hard eco times we should ALL be good shepards of our money.
> 
> ALSO for all of you who keep comparing the zapata cards to intel's dialogic
> cards please read up on the subject first, it's like comparing apples and
> oranges. the best reason to chose the zapata IMHO, is the fact that their
> cheap good cards that you can buy (or make) alot of them and provide
> redundancy and at lot of coverage area because of the low upfront cost.
> THANK GOD FOR THE GPL MOVEMENT.
> 
> TO MARK
> thanks for the offer but, yes we are to far into the making our own process,
> sorry.
> dwayne
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tilghman Lesher" <tilghman at mail.jeffandtilghman.com>
> To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 12:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] CE certification for Europe
> 
> 
> > On Saturday 05 April 2003 12:03, d hinton wrote:
> > > look, i like this project, and hope to contribute to it in the
> > > near future,
> >
> > Then contribute already.  Don't troll the list.  And don't
> > volunteer to sell Digium's cards at a price that severely
> > undercuts their product (and revenue and development),
> > as the GNU telephony movement greatly benefits from Digium's
> > continued development and resources (including this list).
> >
> > > but i just believe that making the cards more
> > > affordable ads more value,
> >
> > It's already more affordable than any other telephony
> > card.  The value is undisputed by everyone here, except
> > for you.
> >
> > > by allowing more people to be able
> > > to afford to develope on this cards,
> >
> > If you can't afford $1500 for a card, you jolly well aren't
> > going to be able to afford a T1 line anyway, so having the
> > card would be completely irrelevant.
> >
> > > and for the global GPL
> > > telephony movement to continue to grow.
> >
> > It's growing.  Buy from Digium and it'll grow some more.
> >
> > > i hope i didn't offend
> >
> > Too late.
> >
> > -Tilghman
> >
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