[asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?

[Jon Pounder]

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>> BRI is stupid in the US anyways, that is why it was never supported or
>> proper stack written (with the exception of Marcin's).  BRI was a
>> miscarriage in the US and it will probably disappear in the near
>> future.
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> Okay, great! Why didn't you just reply with that to begin? Seriously...? '-) 
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> Look, this confirms what I'd pretty much concluded already. All I wanted to know. Now I can stop trying to find out what the deal is, you see.
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> Truly, I thought getting a public recommendation to contact someone who already hadn't passed the "please don't taint my GNU/Linux and open source" machine test, was, well, funny... okay? 
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> I found it *particularly* funny as you didn't address the part of my post where I want to know if it's common to, well... you can call it what you want with borrowing, and keeping modified, open source code (if that's what happened)... for me, I'm *not* a capitalist, but I do understand the effect on open source when folks do that. ;-)
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>> Just get a partial PRI, POTS, or a some DSL lines.
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> Partial PRI is also disappearing, I've been told -- though now I'll have to try harder to find it since I don't need any bandwidth, but would like digital lines. POTS will likely have to do after all.
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Well maybe if there was a decently supported piece of hardware that 
actually worked in North America, enough people on this list would 
actually see the benefits of BRI where T1/PRI is just not the right fit 
for the situation, and there would be a demand and it would become more 
well known and not disappear, .....

I agree though, if nothing changes it will go away before too long.