[Asterisk-Users] Is the X100P a WinModem?

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Thursday 23 October 2003 13:32, Ethan wrote:
> > what their costs are or what makes them successful.  Armchair
> > businessmen are a dime a dozen; it doesn't help that everytime
> > you post to the list, you advocate products which will undercut
> > Digium's source of revenue.
>
> Isn't this what Linux is about?

Linux is about wiping out the businesses which support Linux?  Sounds
kind of self-defeating to me.

> Every asterisk box helps to cause things like the layoffs of
> thousands of our peers that worked for Avaya/Lucent, Nortel, and
> others from the commercial PBX manufacturers. Times change, and I
> don't think the Winmodem hack will really hurt Digum that bad.
> Anyone serious will probably need the T1 card, as the Intel PC is a
> horrible hardware platform and really doesn't handle large numbers
> of expansion cards properly.

Give an inch, take a mile.  The next argument advanced will be that
anyone serious will need the multi-T1 card, so cloning the single port
T1 card isn't that big a deal.  And ditto for the TDM400P and the
assorted piggyback modules.  This isn't some other company competing
with the project; this is Digium, which is _supporting_ the project.

> Why not just ask the winmodem hackers to donate money instead?

Sounds like a dot-bomb business plan:

1)  Ask the community to donate money to us.
.....
3)  Profit!

-Tilghman