[asterisk-users] FW: Asterisk 3rd party developed commercialsoftware sales licensing platform

[Dean Collins]

Hi Tzafrir, thanks for your input.

Yes I can see how people in the community could be concerned about this
being a slippery slope. 

All voices need to be expressed even those that think it's a very bad
idea. 

My only desire here is to drive more 'funds' to developers who build
innovative products for Asterisk.

I look forward to your input and participation on Fridays call.


Cheers,
Dean 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Tzafrir Cohen
> Sent: Monday, 5 May 2008 8:21 AM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] FW: Asterisk 3rd party developed
commercialsoftware
> sales licensing platform
> 
> On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 07:24:48AM -0400, Dean Collins wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I see quite a few third-party applications developed around Asterisk.
> 
> A recent entry:
> 
> http://astcdrview.berlios.de/
> 
>   astCDRview is a lightweight, Web-based, multi-language Asterisk
SQLite
>   CDR viewer that supports multiple outgoing carriers, multiple
incoming
>   numbers, billing, an address book, and extensions
> 
> (as seen on Freshmeat)
> 
> I don't think that application is something that only needs to be
sold.
> If this will be the case, we'll end up with locked cages that cannot
be
> integrated well into solid solutions by integrators.
> 
> If that short-term profit and no feedback is what you're after, then
> sure, go ahead.
> 
> >
> > 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 could it be used as
the
> > basis for the Asterisk ecosystem license model.
> 
> I personally consider the current g729 licensing as a usage annoyance.
> Yet another example of the silly licensing overhead caused by
proprietary
> software.
> 
> (Use speex)
> 
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