Date: Wed, 20 Mar 96 10:02:09 MET From: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Aust. ISDN, was Re: Win32 (was:Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement...) Message-ID: <199603200904.KAA11447@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> In-Reply-To: <199603191954.MAA24558@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 19, 96 12:54 pm
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> >> > 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. It's not quite that bad. First, they have their own, protected manufacturers. Secondly, the big manufacturers do go to the trouble. But it's certainly not the kind of pain that an "enterprising importer" would inflict upon himself. > 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 would be inclined to predict that things will change in the next 3 or 4 years, in order to prevent exactly your prediction from coming true. > 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... True, true. I'm not saying it's a good thing, but it's an unfortunate fact of life. Greg
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