From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 17 04:06:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA10831 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 04:06:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from cheops.anu.edu.au (avalon@cheops.anu.edu.au [150.203.76.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA10824 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 04:06:12 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199603171206.EAA10824@freefall.freebsd.org> Received: by cheops.anu.edu.au (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA005154482; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 23:08:02 +1100 From: Darren Reed Subject: Re: Aust. ISDN, was Re: Win32 (was:Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement...) To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 23:08:02 +1100 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603171012.UAA19240@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Mar 17, 96 08:42:39 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In some mail from Michael Smith, sie said: > > Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > > > > > Mind you, you're in a great position over there compared to *.au.. Here, > > > the phone company owns the NT1, so everything you connect to the S0 bus has > > > to be "approved", including the software. ie: developing the software > > > yourself is completely out of the question here. > > > > So change your government -- Aussie's have sufferage! 8-) 8-). > > We just did 8( And all i can say is that they got the *astards they > voted for 8(. Chances are good some Baby Bell will have a major slice > in the carrier here come the new year 8( Well, after talking to a friend of mine who has crashed _exchanges_ both here in Australia and in the USA with ISDN software he was developing, such restrictions are understandable. Lets just hope the same bastards nobody voted for manage to get ISDN to us at a rate around what they were promising. I can't say that things were looking any brighter on this front with the folks who got voted out either, but lets not discuss that here.