[Asterisk-Users] Open G.729A codec

[Steve Underwood]

Hi Matthew,

That argument doesn't seem to work. I don't hear many complaints here 
about the cost of the VoiceAge codec. It's the clunkiness of the 
protection scheme people don't like. It's only the protection scheme 
that seems to be making people want to dump the VoiceAge code.

Remember how Microsoft got to be so big? Most successful packages, like 
123, had clunky copy protection that hurt the genuine customers far more 
than the pirates. Microsoft's applications business was getting nowhere 
at that time. Then Microsoft make a big announcement that they would not 
use such clunky protection schemes on Word or Excel, and their 
applications sales have never looked back.

Inconveniencing the genuine customers is a proven loser. Perhaps the 
music industry will learn this soon.

Regards,
Steve


Matthew Hardeman wrote:

>If I had to venture a guess, I would say that the protection scheme is in
>place in the hopes that everyone will use their implementation rather than
>reinvent the wheel.  If this is indeed the case, their protection scheme is
>useful in helping to protect the patent license as well as their code.  So
>far, it would seem, no one has bothered to reinvent the wheel, and as such
>we're stuck using their implementation.
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