You need to talk about this with digium sales, i suggest you give Jim Webster a call. Without going into details, other license agreements are possible. (Several companies including mine can distribute software as a module similar to how g729 is being sold - we do that for our t.30/t.38 fax modules, lumenvox does it for voice recognition,... ).
OT, where can i find the best info on this salesforce API ? Do you see any possibilities to integrate our zoiper softphone with salesforce ? (contact me off list for that) Cheers, Zoa Dean Collins wrote: > Hi BJ, > Further explanation about the 3rd party ecosystem question this morning > > Cory Andrews from VoIP supply was on the Voip-Users conference call last > week. > > I asked the question - how much of VoIP Supply revenue is product versus > applications - he said we don't sell any services such as ITSP hosted > Asterisk so I replied that wasn't what I was thinking of and gave the > example of Snap Dialer which is a low cost (I think I paid $20 for it) > application which allows me to dial names from outlook. > > I then talked about some of the consulting I did for Salesforce.com and > how they have built an entire ecosystem of third party applications all > built by other people but utilizing the documented API's and application > security etc. > > My comments were that although Asterisk should always remain a free open > source application that developers need to eat and pay rent as well. > > If there was some common marketplace that developers could sell small - > low cost third party applications to the Asterisk community that Digium > had some type of overview/management control over who listed etc that > this would deliver a stream of revenue that would encourage further > application development. > > The question I then posed to the group was if anyone knew how Digium > managed the sale and licensing of the G729 codes. > > And if this was an open published standard that it could be used as the > basis for the Asterisk ecosystem license model. > > Now I know it's not perfect and can be hacked but everything can be > hacked. The idea is to build apps cheap enough that it's not worth the > effort of hacking. > > I know there were discussions in Mexuar about how we could sell (read > license) a single channel of the Mexuar Corraleta application rather > than the entire server license for $2000. > > Earlier this week I sent an original email to Digium and told Kevin was > responsible for the G729 licenses so I was hoping that this Friday we > could get Kevin and possibly the developers of Snap Dialer to talk about > their current license models and how they implemented payment systems > and also maybe the developer of FOP to discuss if this was available to > him and he was able to sell a 100 licenses or something like that a > month would this provide an income stream to support further development > etc. > > Does this make sense? > Does anyone have any comments or would you like to be involved with > Fridays call? > > > > > Regards, > > Dean Collins > Cognation Pty Ltd > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +1-212-203-4357 Ph > +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Dean Collins >> Sent: Wednesday, 9 April 2008 7:53 AM >> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >> Cc: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'; Ast-biz >> > (asterisk- > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> Subject: RE: [VOIP-Users-Conference] Subject or Guest for Friday? >> >> We can talk about the third party application idea Cory and I >> > discussed last week - > >> sorry still haven't posted to the list yet as I've had a client in >> > town for the last few day > >> but should be able to do this today. >> If Fop, Snap Dialer, Mexuar and or any other third party developer who >> > has written > >> commercial asterisk applications (preferably small low value eg $20 >> > etc) is interested > >> in jumping on a call with me this Friday I can put together a series >> > of questions to run > >> the call with. >> Maybe we can get Kevin from Digium to explain on the call how the g729 >> > license > >> registration process works and turn the call into a working >> > discussion. > >> Regards, >> >> Dean Collins >> Cognation Pty Ltd >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> +1-212-203-4357 Ph >> +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). >> >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:VOIP-Users- >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of randulo >>> Sent: Wednesday, 9 April 2008 7:27 AM >>> To: VOIP Users Conference >>> Subject: [VOIP-Users-Conference] Subject or Guest for Friday? >>> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Does anyone have a guest or subject up their sleeve for this week? I >>> have neither and I'm getting ready to move house so I don't have a >>> > lot > >>> of time to pursue. Any chance of getting a phone mfr or service >>> provider on? Anyone out there want to take a crack at this? Present >>> your product or service or open source contributions. >>> >>> Incidentally, TringMe apparently has an API available and are making >>> it very easy to build AIR and Flash (or Flex) apps. This sounds very >>> interesting for creating branded clients of various kinds. If you're >>> > a > >>> programmer in that world, I'd check it out. AIR looks to me like it >>> has legs because of its cross-platform nature. I don't know how it >>> works with linux or FreeBSD if at all. Does anyone here know? >>> >>> If no ideas are forthcoming, we can talk about my personal (VoIP) >>> issues: we're moving and will have two offices, as now. The >>> > difference > >>> is, we can not leave the power on at the old office, so we'll be >>> > using > >>> a combination of hosted pbx and asterisk, probably with the AA50 at >>> our new home. >>> >>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions on any of this :) >>> >>> /r >>> >>> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ >>> Your participation in the conference is always appreciated! 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