I am interested as well. I bought 100 licenses a year ago, and some of
them are "catching a dust".
I think it will work. Just let me know when it will be ready and is
there any performance issues in case if
network connection on your side goes down.
All the Best!
Sergey.
Steve Totaro wrote:
Well I am looking at purchasing 672 licenses. Digium gives a little
price break over 500 licenses, they only charge $8/each. Somehow I
would like to see how your model could possibly help my situation rather
than helping everyone else's.
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: trixter aka Bret McDanel
Sent: Sat 2/4/2006 8:39 PM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Cc:
Subject: RE: [asterisk-biz] g729 licensing
On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 20:11 -0500, Steve Totaro wrote:
> Now this is excellent thinking! I especially like the section
at then
> end that explains some legal questions.
>
Its not exactly a new idea, the sun commercial compiler uses a
similar
license system (or at least did I havent used it for at least 10
years,
but 10-15 years ago it did this). Steam (for halflife,
counterstrike,
etc) also do a similar thing. Autocad has something similar.
Many
things have a network license server for licensed material.
http://www.sipro.com makes it clear that you are licensing a
channel
(one end per license), and not a specific implementation or
other
hardware locked thing. As such this model is approved so long
as you
dont exceed the total number of licensed channels.
We are just trying to lower the entry cost for this technology.
Vovida.org (cisco's open source telephony platform) has some
work on the
Open G.729A codec, however that is only suitable for development
and
educational purposes, as such its not suitable for many (the
license
forbids commercial use without an actual license).
This is also an attempt to help the community, with the sharing
model by
sharing licenses in a collective. While licenses still have to
be
bought, you dont need a 1:1 in a global environment (1 license
per user)
becuase many people have idle licenses just sitting there
collecting
dust. This means that more people can use licenses cheaper than
if they
had to get their own license and then not use it while they
arent on the
phone.
The other model is more for businesses that need/want a more
closed
environment. We give people choice and freedom :)
--
Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel
UK +44 870 340 4605 Germany +49 801 777 555 3402
US +1 360 207 0479 or +1 516 687 5200
FreeWorldDialup: 635378
http://www.sacaug.org/ Sacramento Asterisk Users Group
------------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
--Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com --
asterisk-biz mailing list
To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:
http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
_______________________________________________
--Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com --
asterisk-biz mailing list
To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:
http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
