[asterisk-biz] FW: Asterisk 3rd party developed commercial software sales licensing platform

[Steve Totaro]

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Trixter aka Bret McDanel
<trixter at 0xdecafbad.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 08:51 -0500, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
>  > Steve Totaro wrote:
>  >
>  > > I do not think Digium makes much off the sales of a G729 license and
>  > > it probably costs them after supporting it.  I think they do it to
>  > > provide a much needed component to Asterisk.  I do not really see
>  > > other 3rd party applications providing a "Licensed VoIP Standard" that
>  > > is so widespread in VoIP devices.
>  >
>  > Obviously I cannot disclose any numbers, but I can say with all
>  > certainty that Digium does not lose money selling G.729 codec patent
>  > indemnification licenses.
>  >
>
>  generic rates are available online, granted you get volume discounts but
>  it starts about $1/channel for g.729 and goes down to $0.10/license (or
>  at least it did last I checked, rumor is that the price is going down).
>
>  http://www.sipro.com is the licensing authority for the g.729 consortium
>  (they also do g.723.1) and have pricing sheets in pdf form on their
>  website if anyone is really interested in what the costs are.  Of course
>  you will have to guess what volume digium is doing and what program they
>  fell into (there are a couple and the price varies with them).
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>

Glad to hear it is a good money maker for Digium.  I had no idea it
was that cheap.  Nice profit margin!

Thanks,
Steve Totaro