<div>For all the noise about this noone has mentioned one important thing. We should be gratefull that we have access to G.729a in Asterisk, whatever the mechanics of the licensing. It's obvious that its a pain in the a@# for Digium who absolutely not making ANY on it money for their efforts. It would be really easy for them to say "no more" and it wouldn't really impact their business at all, except to reduce their headaches.</div>
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<div>This will be especially true when they introduce their new hardware based transcoding engine. Why then should they continue to deal with the per stream softwaer codec licensing? If you want access to G.729a just buy the board...the license cost withn be buried in the price and they can afford to provide support to paying customers.</div>
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<div>Again, we should be gratefull! It could very easily go away altogether.</div>
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<div>Those of you constantly complaining...this is supposed to be a open source community...don't just demand a better licensing scheme...design and implement one. That can be your contibution to the project. I'm not a code jockey or I'd have a go myself.</div>
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<div>In the interest of full disclosure, I have a small systems based upon Astlinux and a Soekris Net4801. I have 2 G.729a licenses on that box and I'd like to see Digium make the codec possible using the alternative C libraries that Kristian has used in Astlinux 0.4. I probably can't justify buying the hardware transcoder. And I definitely don't want them to withdraw the current codec offering.<BR><BR>Michael Graves<BR>Sr Product Specialist<BR>Pixel Power Inc<BR><A href="mailto:mgraves@pixelpower.com">mgraves@pixelpower.com</A><BR>o(713) 861-4005<BR>o(800) 905-6412<BR>f(713) 864-8668<BR>c(713) 201-1262<BR><BR></div>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 8px; MARGIN-LEFT: 8px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid">-------- Original Message --------<BR>Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Prices of g729 codec<BR>From: "Woodoo People .pGa!" <wpeople@Shadow.microsystem.hu><BR>Date: Mon, June 05, 2006 10:15 am<BR>To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion<BR><asterisk-users@lists.digium.com><BR><BR>> Talk to digium about this on support@digium.com, they might be able to <BR>> help you out there.<BR>> <BR>> Zoa<BR>> <BR>> Chris Mason (Lists) wrote:<BR>> <BR>> >I have no problem with paying Digium the $10 for G729 licenses, <BR>> >everyone has to make money. It's the administration of the licenses <BR>> >that sucks. I experiment with different hardware a lot, and make up <BR>> >demo machines to install for customers with available hardware. I have <BR>> >to put G729 licenses on them, usually $100 each time, and when I <BR>> >install the real hardware for the client, I can't transfer the <BR>> >licenses. If I scrap that machine or change the interfaces, that's a <BR>> >$100 loss. I believe when you buy a number of licenses, that should <BR>> >determine how many instances you can use, regardless of how you want <BR>> >to deploy them.<BR>> >In short, the method of enforcement is poor and leads to resentment <BR>> >from customers. Surely Digium can construct a better system?<BR><BR>i think, for those of us, who would like to transfer licences from one box<BR>to other (i mean more than 1-2 or 10), we would have to buy a hardware<BR>base lock (of course, i don't care about, if the lock would contact<BR>digium once a day or so) like usb, or a dumb pci ethernet card, so<BR>if we need we can move it to other. what do you think?<BR>(sadly there is no a 7day demo licence or anything to test) <BR>-- <BR>WoodOO-[P]an[G]alaktikan[A]gent-People <][> http://shadow.pganet.com<BR>wpeople@shadow.pganet.com]iCQ#33118021[wpeople.on.iRCNet]wpeople@RedHat.users<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>--Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com --<BR><BR>Asterisk-Users mailing list<BR>To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:<BR> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>