[asterisk-biz] g729 licensing

[Sergey Kuznetsov]

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 :)
> 	
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> 	Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com     Bret McDanel
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