[Asterisk-Users] Prices of g729 codec

[trixter aka Bret McDanel]

On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 14:18 -0700, Lee Howard wrote:
> Andrew took issue with my initial sarcastic comment because this thread 
> involves the G.729 codec - but remember that if someone does ultimately 
> choose to obtain a license illegally that they're not cheating *Digium* 
> - rather, they're cheating the patent holder (which is not Digium).
> 
technically they are doing both becuase the patent holder only wants
like $0.25/license if bought in quantity.  The remainder goes to digium
(or whomever else is selling them).  Currently afaik the only ones for
sale are digium, but trxtel.com is working with another company to offer
floating licenses for g.729 for asterisk (and otherp latforms) making
the licenses more portable and even cheaper (estimated price now is
about $4-5 per license).  The community pool on the licenses is also a
nice feature where your license server talks to a master server which
can then let you share unused licenses with others and when you need
more than you have you can borrow licenses from others.  But meh.
Estimated delivery time on that is about 2-3 months.


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