This guy is not selling extension licensing, he is selling a pre-configured system and charges extra to configure more extensions and says "other people charge extra licenses for extensions" of which I can only find the big PBX manufacturers that do that. Regardless, you sure can charge extension licensing if you choose to and it is a common practice to do that as a way of creating a service contract for your client. A typical "extension license" provides the programming, support, and maintenance of that extension. There is absolutely nothing "wrong" with that.
The music on hold music is from FreePlayMusic whose licensing agreement on their site would make the use of that music within Asterisk a violation of their licensing agreement. I haven't looked in Asterisk licensing to find where the use of the tracks from FreePlayMusic are mentioned, and without that, they have every right to charge for them. The only difference between deploying an Asterisk server and a legacy style PBX is the cost of the underlieing technology. The rest of the business model still applies. Finally, isn't this a whole lot of nothing anyway since he has never had even 1 bid on any of his previous auctions for the same thing? -Kerry -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of I put the Who? in Mishehu Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 7:49 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] RE: Ebay listing selling Asterisk @Home andAMPfor over 1000 dollars It is alright to sell hardware, and it is alright to sell labor when dealing with open source software. But selling licensing on something that does not exist (extension licensing???) is wrong. What if somebody started charging extra licensing to use the include music tracks for MOH? Also, I do believe that if Digium and the other software copyright holders are concerned about not receiving the due credit for any purported use of their software in this ebay listing, I do believe there are legal remedies available. -mishehu <SNIP Email Trail history> >Simple question...."so what?" It may be easier to setup "to you", but >it is mind boggingly difficult for others. Extensions, Ring Groups, >Trunks, Dial Plans, PSTN, POTS, PRI, etc can start to make many people's eyes gloss over. >That is the beauty of this business. I am in independent consultant, do >you feel it is wrog for me to sell an Asterisk system to a client to >solve their business needs? Who knows, I might have started selling >pre-configured boxes on eBay myself except looking through completed >items shows that while he has been selling that box for sometime, he >has never had a single bid on one. And its NOT because its based on >open source, PBX's in general do not sell very well if at all on eBay >as it is a function of "the phone guy" to recommend a system to his clients. > >With Asterisk, the "phone guy" can now be the "computer guy" and can >handle both systems. But anyone that thinks it is immoral in some way >for me to make a living off if it is crazy. How many Linux admins are >employed out there? Shouldn't they give their time away because Linux is open source? >What about Dell selling servers with Linux installed? Should they give >away the servers? So why should a phone system be any different? > >Kerry > > > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
