[Asterisk-Users] digitnetworks card issues?

[Kevin Walsh]

Jay Milk [jay at skimmilk.net] lazily top-posted:
> The difference is that digitnetworks specifically targets Digium as
> competition.
>
Competition is a good thing, in my view.

I didn't find out about the non-Digium X100P cards until after I'd
bought mine (for use at home).  If I'd known then I probably would have
avoided the massive markup and bought one of the "clones".  These days,
I'd recommend a Sipura SPA-3000.

Perhaps you'd like to boycott Sipura products, as they represent direct
competition to the likes of the X100P and TDM cards.

>
> Digium was first on the market with the X100P and
> digitnetworks cloned their product, thus circumvented Digium's R&D cost
> and undermines their ability to recover that cost.  Digitnetworks are
> trying to steal a slice of the pie from Digium, and that's why
> supporting them on this list is objectionable.
>
You've not seen the http://www.zapatatelephony.org/ website then, I
take it.  All of the X100P cards are clones, and I remember when you
could download the X100P artwork from that website.  The X100P artwork
and specs seem to have been removed now, for whatever reason.

The T400P (and E400P) are clones of the Zapata Tormenta II, and anyone
can download the artwork to build and sell their own version.  If the
owners of the Zapata Telephony project didn't want people to use their
designs then they would not have released them under the GPL and
published them on a public website.

As they say on their website:

    ¡Viva la revolución de las computadoras telefónicas! ¡Viva Zapata!

Live with it.

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