Fwd: [Asterisk-Users] Prices of g729 codec

[Sahil Gupta]

Hi,
I couldn't quite understand what was so wrong if someone was moving a bit 
of hardware around and requested key changes.  After all, the keys have 
been paid for and the registered person was requesting for the keys to be 
reset.

It was a while back... All good otherwise.

Regards,


Sahil Gupta
VoiceValley

On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Jon Lewis wrote:

> On 6/3/06, Kevin P. Fleming <kpfleming at digium.com> wrote:
>> 
>> ----- Sahil Gupta <sgupta at voicevalley.com.au> wrote:
>>> 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.
>> 
>> Unless you had been clearly abusing the key licensing system, our
>> support department will never refuse to enable a new registration on
>> your license key(s). There is no 'renew the keys', though, since they
>> don't expire.
>
> I hope that's the actual official policy now.  There seems to have been some 
> internal conflict or communications failure at Digium a few months ago as to 
> whether or how many times a g729 license key can be reset.
>
> As a service provider (you could call us an Asterisk ASP), we regularly build 
> & host systems for customers, retire/upgrade systems, swap out hardware, add 
> interfaces, etc. which causes problems with the g729 licensing.
>
> In one attempt a few months ago to get a license reset, I was initially told 
> it was now policy that Digium would only reset the registration count once, 
> and after that, you were SOL (or forced to play MAC address changing games or 
> as someone else posted, try hacking around the license key code).
>
> In that particular case, the customer's server had suffered a 2 disk RAID 
> failure, and to get them back online, I moved them to a lower end system 
> (what was readily available) while we waited for parts to get their dual xeon 
> server back online.  Both motherboards had built-in dual ethernets.
>
> IMO, locking the licensing to a piece of system thats often built-in, has 
> been very annoying.  I think I'd be happier if it was locked to some sort of 
> dongle (parallel, or more likely today, USB).  At least that way, we could 
> easily move the key anytime we needed to.  It would be a bit of a pain any 
> time a system needed to quickly be transfered to hardware already at another 
> location.
>
> The TRX idea sounds appealing, but I wonder how they'll handle servers that 
> don't have internet access.  Not all VOIP servers are on the internet.
>
> I've actually wondered if we could legally use Intel's code in cases where we 
> have licenses bought from Digium, but they're not re-registerable because 
> Digium wouldn't reset the use count.
>
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