<div class="gmail_quote">Responses inline ...<br><br>On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Anthony Minessale <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anthony.minessale@gmail.com">anthony.minessale@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Based on your response, I could be wrong but, I get the impression you are intentionally trying to stir up some kind of controversy. Is there a specific reason you feel the need to raise your concerns on our general users mailing lists and not to <a href="mailto:consulting@freeswitch.org" target="_blank">consulting@freeswitch.org</a> where they belong. This has gone from asking some questions to some sort of rhetoric against our policy that clearly already addresses your concerns. <br>
</blockquote><div><br>I'm not trying to stir up any controversy, I simply responded to
Brian's request on the mailing list, to "prove the machine is dead"
when someone asked about having a license reissued. We might have a need to purchase g729 licenses down the road, and I certainly think it's fair
enough for us or anyone else purchasing licenses, to know what you
would expect of those requesting a license reissued for any valid
reason (not just for a dead box). Requesting proof the box is dead,
obviously seems a little difficult to prove, which is why I posed those
questions. Brian's and Mike's responses of a signed paper stating the reason, seems fine to me.<br><br>There's nothing documented on how the licensing actually works other than how to get it running - is it tied to the MAC address or some other hardware ID, that would be good to know? If we were to purchase licenses, we'd want to test them in our development environment first. I think something should be added to the wiki so people don't accidentally activate the licenses on their development server first, in order to test out mod_com_g729, and then think they're just going to move the licenses over to their production server and expect it to work. Why should I email <a href="mailto:consulting@freeswitch.org">consulting@freeswitch.org</a>, and exclude other people in the community that might be purchasing g729 licenses, I think they're completely valid questions anyone in the community should know the answer to, no?<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Do you really think you are going to have a whole bunch of boxes fail to some degree that we will not be willing to re-issue your licenses or are you just more interested in starting a flame war on our mailing list? The licenses are to the specifications of the requirements of the contracts we signed. We did so taking the on the risk and responsibility to make g729 available to the community. <br>
</blockquote><div><br>No, I don't really think all of our boxes are going to fail at once, it was about reallocation of resources or upgrading a box, which occurs more often. I think it's fair for us to know what to expect should we ask to have a license reissued.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">We had a discussion about floating licenses and concluded it was unwise and not worth the risk and security implications. If you use g729 you know how much traffic you are going to use and if you want to remain stable you should not want to add another moving part to the equation that could go down and make all of your calls fail</blockquote>
<div><br>While I understand your reasoning of adding something else to the equation that could fail and cause dropped calls, I also feel that's a business decision that should be made by the company purchasing the licenses, assuming they're given both options (floating and server assigned). Given my choice, I'd probably take that "chance" and would rather have floating licenses but will take whatever you guys offer (not Howler), as I'm committed to supporting the project as much as possible.<br>
</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">This is the policy we have implemented and I think you are getting the good end of the bargain with a free telephony server with an efficient stable g729 codec implementation at an affordable cost. If a high-enough demand arises for floating licenses and we have the time and resources to implement it, we may reconsider it but only a tiny fraction of our customers have even asked about it, let alone demanded it.</blockquote>
<br>Yes, FreeSWITCH is awesome! <br><br>Cheers,<br>Gabe<br></div>