From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 19 12:00:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA26039 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 12:00:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA26032 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 12:00:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA24558; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 12:54:59 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199603191954.MAA24558@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Aust. ISDN, was Re: Win32 (was:Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement...) To: lehey.pad@sni.de (Greg Lehey) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 12:54:59 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199603190944.KAA25090@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Mar 19, 96 10:41:44 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > If you are talking cards, well, they can be shoved through the > > approval process by an enterprising importer who wants to make > > his money on the margins on imported hardware. > > You obviously haven't seen the international telco's ideas of > approval. They differ completely from one country to another - for > example, in England they destroy the equipment to see how much it > takes to destroy it (overvoltage and such). In general, the cost of > approval only makes it interesting for large markets, such as > Germany. How many international comms products are available in > Portugal or France, for example? Then I guess they don't get comms products. And in 10 years, the rest of the countries will own their asses, at least as far as their ability to compete in the international marketplace is concerned. I predict the situation will continue as long as the intentionally work to make their markets "uninteresting". Oh well, I can't personally do anything about that... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.