Thanks Olle, Concentrating on your 3rd point;
> A third item is the ability for a marketplace for addons that doesn't > require licensing from Digium. Tools that connect over manager and/or > AGI/FastAGI. I think we could be better at putting these to market > than we are - internally in the community. I've seen plenty of tools > during my meetings with community people at conferences and trainings, > tools that could find resellers and distributors world-wide if we had > the internal network for it. Can you offer some suggestions or advice about how best to license these applications? Is tying it to a nic address like the G729 model a good idea? Is there a better way to do this? How does this affect applications that might run on a users pc in a client mode? What should we be aware of when trying to design a licensing schema like this? Cheers, Dean > -----Original Message----- > From: Johansson Olle E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 5 May 2008 12:22 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Cc: Dean Collins > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] FW: Asterisk 3rd party developed commercial > software sales licensing platform > > Dean, > > I think this is really an interesting topic. However, you list a lot > of issues that can propably fill many conference calls. I'll try to > comment on a few that is important to me. > > Please note that Digium has taken a few steps to enable a 3rd party > Asterisk Marketplace, right now hosted on their web. I personally > think the marketplace deserves a separate address, but think it's a > good first step that needs feedback from companies working with > Asterisk. It's fairly cheap and Digium needs your feedback on this and > where you want this to go. I applaud any effort for the thousands of > small Asterisk entrepreneurs out there. 3COMs and PolyComs have > marketing money to join the partner program for the "big guys", but > most Asterisk companies have not. > > Another issue that you touch is Digium's licensing for small scale > OEM's. Being able to create an application based on Asterisk source > code with source addons and start selling it on a small scale. That's > very hard today. OEM agreements seems to start on 3Com levels, not on > the typical "innovative Asterisk company" levels. If enough of us > discuss this with Digium and show missed oppurtunities, I hope they > will listen. The dual licensing scheme is useful in some situations, > but I wished it was more reachable for small companies with smaller > projects that aims to be worldwide and global within months... :-) > > A very different one is bountys or sponsorships in general. I've been > a proud receiver of a good sponsorship from Voop from a long time, up > until the company failed in December last year. After that, I've found > no one interested in sponsoring my work or funding my pet project > Codename Pineapple (only a few fans that want to sponsor parts of it - > thank you). > > Even funding small projects seems to get more negative feedback ("He's > profiting on open source") than positive support (one offer of 10 > dollars). My personal opinion is that I from my Swedish horizon see > Digium employing more and more developers focused on the Open Source > project, but very few other companies contribute on a regular basis to > the project. This might be the nature of Open Source - more takers > than contributors, but I was naive enough to believe it would change > over time. > > A third item is the ability for a marketplace for addons that doesn't > require licensing from Digium. Tools that connect over manager and/or > AGI/FastAGI. I think we could be better at putting these to market > than we are - internally in the community. I've seen plenty of tools > during my meetings with community people at conferences and trainings, > tools that could find resellers and distributors world-wide if we had > the internal network for it. There's a large group of Asterisk system > integrators with very similar customer bases and projects world wide. > Together, we would be bigger than many of the companies we see as > large companies. Look at the size of Digium/Asterisk world booths at > VON the last years compared with Cisco, Avaya etc - by working > together we show our strength and will get larget deals. > > That was my 10 cents during a lab in the Asterisk SIP MasterClass in > Barcelona, where we work hard to build scalable networks with Asterisk > and OpenSER. > > Cheers, > /Olle > > PS. If anyone is interested in sponsoring my Asterisk(TM) work, > contact me off list. </shameless plug> _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
