[Asterisk-Users] Open G.729A codec

[Matthew Hardeman]

 I completely see your point, and I agree with you that sales of the item
would be much higher if they didn't have their silly scheme.  However, it
seems to me that they intend to jealously defend and over-enforce...  Having
said that, one could surmise that they are simply control freaks hoping no
one will start selling a better implementation.

For that matter, is it possible that they've used their patent positions to
discourage others from trying to build another implementation?

One must wonder why someone hasn't written and started distributing one?

Matt Hardeman
PaperSoft

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Underwood" <steveu at coppice.org>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Open G.729A codec


> 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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