[Asterisk-Users] RE: "open" asterisk?

[Chris]

    Of course you are correct.   Sorry, got the terms mixed up a little.   Most of them that I have bought stuff from were all to eager for me to send products to them so they could clone them.  If fact some have seemingly out right begged me.  It is attractive because of the price.

        The digium cards cost $300+ a useful alternative that cost $100 +/- would be nice.

        I have generally only bought cable & connectors from the Asian companies.    However one of them produces a nice DVR unit for vehicles they claim they developed from scratch.    

Chris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terry H. Gilsenan" <thg at interoil.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Cc: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] RE: "open" asterisk?


> >     It's not too difficult.  I know several Asian companies who would
> > gladly develop the card if you send them a sample and pay a
> > development fee.
> >
> >
> 
> That is NOT development, that is production.
> 
> China is cheaper for _production_, but not nessicarily for development.
> 
> A lot (most?) of the cheaply produced stuff from china was developed in
> the US, or Australia, etc, and then the design was given to a production
> house for cheaper per-unit production, or the original IP was stolen
> (legal||moral) and a cheap production run of counterfeit parts is the
> result.