[Asterisk-Users] Prices of g729 codec

[Sahil Gupta]

We recently had around 60-80 licenses become useless because Digium 
refused to renew the keys on that.  That was a bit of money kissed 
goodbye.

Regards,


Sahil Gupta
VoiceValley

On Sat, 3 Jun 2006, Chris Mason (Lists) wrote:

> I have no problem with paying Digium the $10 for G729 licenses, everyone has 
> to make money. It's the administration of the licenses that sucks. I 
> experiment with different hardware a lot, and make up demo machines to 
> install for customers with available hardware. I have to put G729 licenses on 
> them, usually $100 each time, and when I install the real hardware for the 
> client, I can't transfer the licenses. If I scrap that machine or change the 
> interfaces, that's a $100 loss. I believe when you buy a number of licenses, 
> that should determine how many instances you can use, regardless of how you 
> want to deploy them.
> In short, the method of enforcement is poor and leads to resentment from 
> customers. Surely Digium can construct a better system?
>
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