Fwd: [Asterisk-Users] Prices of g729 codec

[Michael Graves]

My humble employer uses USB keys (dongles) to lock access to available feature sets in our high end TV graphics systems. They're a pain also. Further, they, and the software systems to 
support/manage them cost real money. 

Michael

On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 11:09:56 -0400 (EDT), 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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