[Asterisk-Users] Intel Modem vs Digium Cards

[Christopher Jacob]

Ok, plenty of "Cheap Shots" all the way around... Can we call this a draw? I
believe what Paul was saying is IF the attitude from the list is don't buy
digium hardware don't come around here for help, than that is not in keeping
with the general OS community. I happen to agree.

I buy Digium hardware because I love the idea of sell the hardware open
source the code. (precisely the same reason I own a Squeeze Box) Not to
mention great quality, great services, etc. etc. However, you have to
understand $10 vs. $100 for proof of concept.

Let's work together to make OS the norm and not the exception.

~c



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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 13:49:39 -0500
From: Brian Capouch <brianc at palaver.net>
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Intel Modem vs Digium Cards
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
	<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
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Wolf Paul wrote:

> 
> However, those of us not working with hefty corporate budgets may not 
> have the option of spending
> $100 for a test machine when there's a more cost effective option 
> available.
> 
. . . . .
> 
> If that warrants "don't come asking for support" then you guys are not 
> much of a community but a sales
> machine for Digium.
> 

Cheap shot.

Digium does Asterisk FOR FREE.  They support themselves, which I hope 
you agree is a necessary thing, by selling hardware, one instance of 
which is the low-end X100P.

Essentially the X100P is a slightly modified generic voicemodem THAT 
COMES WITH CUSTOMER SUPPORT.  That is, along with its hardware 
functionality comes the ability to call up and get help if you encounter 
problems.

This list is intensely active, and the developers and others who provide 
advice here are necessarily limited in the amount of attention they can 
devote to (the often repetitive) questions coming from first-timers.

Stir into that mix a first-timer who is undercutting the profit model 
that enables Digium to offer us this wonderful software, and then 
sprinkle your obnoxious insult to the community on top, and you're going 
to find that people (correctly) tell you to go away and solve your own 
problems.

 From my perspective your primary problem isn't hardware; its your attitude.


B.


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