dwayne,
I didn't interpret Tilgman's email as instigating this kind of response. You may be smart, but I really don't buy any of your arguments. I hope someone at your company has better business/PR sense than you. Otherwise, you are doomed. Gregg On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 15:00, d hinton wrote: > to tilghman: > "Then contribute already. Don't troll the list" > you bozoo, before you call someone a troll you should prob read the post. > and if that's you opinion arfter that then fine, so be it. but it's always > some punk, who got bullied on as a kid that hides behind the internet and > slings pot-shots ;-( > "And don't volunteer to sell Digium's cards at a price that severely > undercuts their product (and revenue and development)" > > THESE ARE NOT DIGIUMS CARDS!!!! they are GPL'ed released by the zapata > project: http://zapatatelephony.org try reading and learning before you > write. and further more i never said that i would sell to the public, just > that we COULD make these cards and sell them for $850 and still turn a > profit. it was a hint to digium. in fact, the most expensive part only cost > $100.00 USD. see http://www.maxim-ic.com/index.cfm > > "If you can't afford $1500 for a card, you jolly well aren't > going to be able to afford a T1 line anyway, so having the > card would be completely irrelevant" > at the price digium charges for the CARDS, they would cost the most of the > whole project. for example: i can get a local T1 for ~$250/month with 100 > DID's for $56 dollars extra. and a FULL T1 backbone for $395/month see: > http://www.theplanet.com/solutions/access.php > in these hard eco times we should ALL be good shepards of our money. > > ALSO for all of you who keep comparing the zapata cards to intel's dialogic > cards please read up on the subject first, it's like comparing apples and > oranges. the best reason to chose the zapata IMHO, is the fact that their > cheap good cards that you can buy (or make) alot of them and provide > redundancy and at lot of coverage area because of the low upfront cost. > THANK GOD FOR THE GPL MOVEMENT. > > TO MARK > thanks for the offer but, yes we are to far into the making our own process, > sorry. > dwayne > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tilghman Lesher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 12:47 PM > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] CE certification for Europe > > > > On Saturday 05 April 2003 12:03, d hinton wrote: > > > look, i like this project, and hope to contribute to it in the > > > near future, > > > > Then contribute already. Don't troll the list. And don't > > volunteer to sell Digium's cards at a price that severely > > undercuts their product (and revenue and development), > > as the GNU telephony movement greatly benefits from Digium's > > continued development and resources (including this list). > > > > > but i just believe that making the cards more > > > affordable ads more value, > > > > It's already more affordable than any other telephony > > card. The value is undisputed by everyone here, except > > for you. > > > > > by allowing more people to be able > > > to afford to develope on this cards, > > > > If you can't afford $1500 for a card, you jolly well aren't > > going to be able to afford a T1 line anyway, so having the > > card would be completely irrelevant. > > > > > and for the global GPL > > > telephony movement to continue to grow. > > > > It's growing. Buy from Digium and it'll grow some more. > > > > > i hope i didn't offend > > > > Too late. > > > > -Tilghman > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
