[asterisk-users] Polycom and Asterisk

[Andrew Joakimsen]

First-sale doctrine, unless your vendor did something illicit to
obtain Polycom phones there is nothing they can do about it. It's good
to know Polycom has anti-competitive business practices. I also
dislike that they refuse to give out anything but old firmware
versions too.

On 3/30/07, Stephen Bosch <posting at vodacomm.ca> wrote:
> Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
> > Strange that I cant recall any other device that Asterisk was not
> > working with. So it seems that Polycom is not in compliance with
> > RFC2543. That and Polycom has been known to flat out refuse support if
> > you mention the word "Asterisk"
>
> That's not the case anymore. Digium is an official Polycom Technology
> Partner.
>
> I agree that Polycom is unnecessarily restrictive with their support --
> and generally unfriendly to people who dare to want to use their
> products. It's too bad, really.
>
> One of my vendors recently got their knuckles rapped by Polycom because
> we resold phones bought from them and we're not an "official reseller".
>
> -Stephen-
>
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