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

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 09:20:07AM -0400, Paul wrote:
> Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 07:41:48AM -0400, Paul wrote:
> >
> > 
> >
> >>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.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >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.
> >
> > 
> >
> My guess is that they would object to anything readable by humans. I 
> would be writing c for things easily handled by shell scripts.

PERL included? ;-)

> 
> 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.

"AGI can't be written in assembly!"

Anyone up to the task? ;-)

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