[Asterisk-Users] Vonage

[Jon Pounder]

supplying a device with software you are not supposed to use is one thing.

installing pirated software on a device is a totally different ball of wax.

Is the cisco software supplied on the device ? if so the licence is silly 
at best.
If you have to find a copy of the cisco software and install it explicitly 
that is different.

I am not clear now which we are talking about.


At 06:22 PM 2/24/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 17:46, Jon Pounder wrote:
> > What would you think if I sold you a screw and told you, you could only 
> hit
> > it with a hammer unless you bought the screwdriver licence ?
> >
> > You would think I am an idiot and use the screwdriver anyway. Same thing
> > here. A feature restricting licence for hardware is a moronic concept.
>
>It's not the hardware, its the software.  Presumably, if someone made
>their own SIP stack for the ATA186, you could load it without needing
>the Cisco license.  Of course, that's not an easy matter to do  :)
>
>Without the software, the Cisco is just hardware.  The software license
>makes your use of the software legal.
>
>Again, the licensing of the Vonage in a Box included ATA186 is something
>each person has to decide for themselves.    I'm just putting the facts
>out there, because they should be known.  What you do once you know is
>entirely on you.
>
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