[Asterisk-Users] RE: Ebay listing selling Asterisk @ Home andAMPfor over 1000 dollars

[I put the Who? in Mishehu]

It is alright to sell hardware, and it is alright to sell labor when 
dealing with open source software.  But selling licensing on something 
that does not exist (extension licensing???) is wrong.  What if somebody 
started charging extra licensing to use the include music tracks for 
MOH?  Also, I do believe that if Digium and the other software copyright 
holders are concerned about not receiving the due credit for any 
purported use of their software in this ebay listing, I do believe there 
are legal remedies available.

-mishehu

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>Simple question...."so what?" It may be easier to setup "to you", but it is
>mind boggingly difficult for others. Extensions, Ring Groups, Trunks, Dial
>Plans, PSTN, POTS, PRI, etc can start to make many people's eyes gloss over.
>That is the beauty of this business. I am in independent consultant, do you
>feel it is wrog for me to sell an Asterisk system to a client to solve their
>business needs? Who knows, I might have started selling pre-configured boxes
>on eBay myself except looking through completed items shows that while he
>has been selling that box for sometime, he has never had a single bid on
>one. And its NOT because its based on open source, PBX's in general do not
>sell very well if at all on eBay as it is a function of "the phone guy" to
>recommend a system to his clients.
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>With Asterisk, the "phone guy" can now be the "computer guy" and can handle
>both systems. But anyone that thinks it is immoral in some way for me to
>make a living off if it is crazy. How many Linux admins are employed out
>there? Shouldn't they give their time away because Linux is open source?
>What about Dell selling servers with Linux installed? Should they give away
>the servers? So why should a phone system be any different?
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>Kerry
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