[Asterisk-Users] Dialogic channel pricing

[Steven Critchfield]

You disappoint me. You appear to be a somewhat knowledgeable person
since you use pine, but then you don't figure out how to start a new
thread. 

On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 16:54, mawali at news.icns.com wrote:
> Hi
> As the manual states that Dialogic channel is provided as an add on per 
> price.
> 
> What does it cost and how can one buy it. Hasn't anyone been able to make 
> a 3rd party dialogic channel using GlobalCall.

had you did a small amount of research at the archives or even looked at
recent posts you would have read that the problem is that the dialogic
drivers are not GPL compatible. This means Digium must make a version of
asterisk available in a non GPL license for the driver to be
incorporated. Much the same way that when Sun released StarOffice to the
OOo group they had to strip out the parts that had to be licensed in a
proprietary way. Or the way that when Netscape released the netscape 5.x
code to the mozilla group they had to strip it of anything proprietary. 

You luck out that Mark doesn't allow any code into the main tree that
isn't possible for Digium to release in a license other than GPL. But
for this price, and the effort Digium made to produce the driver, you
must pay a fee. If you use google to search the archive you will find it
to be something like $15 per DS0. 

> I do have a couple of dialogic boards that I would like to use, I dont 
> want my old investment to be useless.

This is why ebay is around. Someone will buy them.

-- 
Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>