[Asterisk-Users] Is the X100P a WinModem?

[Richard Lyman]

and what happens when then turn right around and expect digium to
support this?

personally, i think the $99 is high, but hey, i'm not the one
who's invested all my time/energy/$$ into this like Mark has.

just remember, the free/linux/etc *about* stuff is the base
software, don't start applying that to hardware.  sheesh

when was the last time you got a free monitor with your slackware
cd <G>

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?
> 
> 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.
> 
> If my project works out, I'd be happy to contribute money to the project.
> My side business (unrelated to the Asterisk project totally, we run on
> Lucent PBX that I paid $500 each for (including one with a full Intuity
> Audix platform, the other had the T1/PRI card, 100+ phones total) for the
> business and my home and that will never change (until I find g3
> definitys). Anyways, we already said with our hosting/coloc business that
> we will analyze all of the "free" software we utilize (MRTG, FreeBSD,
> Apache, inter7 products, etc) and donate to all of the projects.
> 
> I gotta admit, the X100P cost was the main reason I delayed so long in
> even trying to mess with asterisk. Even back when I did have a job and an
> income :-)
> 
> Why not just ask the winmodem hackers to donate money instead?
> 
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