"The VOIP Blaster is a very useful device at a very attractive cost. It allows you to make voip calls using a standard telephone in much the same way you make normal wireline calls. The software that comes with it has one very big limitation, it will not work behind a firewall, NAT, or other internet-connection share scheme. It also requires that you sign up with a credit-card for their service. In order to overcome these limitations I have written software to use it under NetBSD, Linux, and Windows. Since FreeBSD (?and OpenBSD?) use the same usb subsystem, should be relatively easy to use with these also. "

Another hardware device offered as a "loss leader" for a service is hacked, this time creating an interesting Long Distance alternative... Someone needs to get behind consumer VOIP and drive it. Open source is as good an option as any. Otherwise it will have to be hardware makers or broadband providers. There is no money in this for a "start up" (which is the reason you're still using a pots line.)