[Asterisk-Users] Prices of g729 codec

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 06:36:25PM -0700, trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 01:52 +0100, Chris Bagnall wrote:
> > I think the issue for many people here is not the cost of the licence
> > itself, but the very frustrating lockdown to specific pieces of hardware
> > without any real reason.
> > 
> > I say "without any real reason" because anyone who doesn't care about the
> > licencing of g729 has an easy alternative in the form of the downloadable
> > g729 binaries. They aren't exactly difficult to find - hell, they're linked
> > to from voip-info and a google search for "g729 binary asterisk" always
> > gives that page in the first few results.

Which are actually not legal for you to use with your PBX without paying Intel a
bit, IIRC.

> > 
> > Is the ridiculous hardware locking down something that was imposed on Digium
> > by the rights holder?
> > 
> 
> its even more rediculous how trivial it is to bypass.  

Indeed. It would have to be much more evil (limiting) if it were to withstand 
such trivial attacks (and make you resort to more complicated hacks to work
around it)

Not perfect. But then again: in a perfect situations we would not have
such an acute patemts problem. There is always the option of staying
away from those codecs.

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