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this sounds just like the state of ISDN a few years agothis sounds just like the state of ISDN a few years agoPosted Feb 2, 2007 12:56 UTC (Fri) by laf0rge (subscriber, #6469)In reply to: this sounds just like the state of ISDN a few years ago by dlang Parent article: A report from the Linux wireless developers meeting
I completely agree, and I have addressed this fact (in netdev circles) before.
With isdn4linux, there was one vendor (ELSA?) who funded the certification/approval process for one specific i4l version. It took quite a bit of time, since they actually tested all the protocol state transitions, etc.
After this was done, this actually was a business advantage to the vendor. The stack was only certified for their card[s]. So anyone deploying i4l in a commercial environment wanted to use their cards. Obviously with passive ISDN cards, all other cards would also behave exactly identical - but they were missing regulatory approval.
Obviously, using a later i4l version and/or applying bugfixes to the source code also voids the approval, and in order to use it legally, you would need to re-certify.
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