[Asterisk-Users] Re: www.openpbx.org

[Paul]

Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

>On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 07:41:48AM -0400, Paul wrote:
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>>Credit card processing would be a good example. You could design *-based 
>>systems for both the client(merchant) and server(processor) functions 
>>but last I knew visa/mc would not certify open source solutions.
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>Note that you can use whatever license you want for an application that
>connects to Asterisk via AGI or the manager interface, regardless of
>whether or not visa/mc would accept free software.
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My guess is that they would object to anything readable by humans. I 
would be writing c for things easily handled by shell scripts.

I find that amusing. I have a lot of experience with disassembly. I have 
even reverse-engineered machine language code that ran on custom 
processors which means you have to reverse-engineer the instruction set 
as part of the task.

Closed source might delay the cracker but it also delays pre-crack and 
post-crack countermeasures.