Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Jan 2000 21:04:38 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: drivers/telephony and winmodems |
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Hi!
> On other Unixen (and the Non-functional Telephony platform) every CTI vendor > has their own interfaces (someone say "TAPI". I need a good > laugh). With
TAPI :-)
> nothing to apply suitable pressure they are going to do the same on Linux, > when they finally wake up and get serious about it. Some vendors (e.g. Pika > and NMS) have had beta drivers for months, with little progress. It is unclear > what their real intentions are. Dialogic looks like it is about to enter the > frey, with more beta drivers. Again its intentions are unclear, but I'm damned > certain a core intention is to keep everything as proprietary as possible. > A strong framework being pushed from within Linux development itself might > mitigate this somewhat. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
Are not current "winmodems" serious competition to so-called telephony devices? They tend to be cheap... Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents me at discuss@linmodems.org
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