Paulo Scardine wrote:
> thomas schorpp escreveu:
>> bkml wrote:
>>  
>>> Ken Rice wrote:
>>>
>>>    
>>>> If you don't want to use chan_sip there is always chan_woomera that  
>>>> uses
>>>> opal which does sip and h323....
>>>>       
>>> woomera is exactly what has been proposed, maybe you want to read 
>>> the  entire thread.
>>>     
>>
>> i dont think so. it would have been proposed to introduce a 
>> proprietary replacement for broad use.
>>
>> y
>> tom
>>   
> Please, IMHO you are barking to the wrong tree, it's an ALTERNATIVE (a 
> needed one), not a replacement.

history showed such things have been always replacements since M$ stole 
X-Windows and other stuff from MIT.

> 
> I saw a developer politely asking if there would be interesting on some 
> alternative proprietary well-written SIP stack.

how do You know "well-written" if closed source?

> The answer is YES, there 
> are people who want this kind of support specially if bundled with the 
> patent encumbered codecs that will not make into callweaver any time 
> soon.

stay on topic pls. codecs are not in a session initiation protocol (SIP).
and we shouldn't give a shit on that U.S. lawyers trivial software patents 
bullshit.
besides, the community has nearly always managed to give reverse-engineered 
and clean room designed replacements for codecs, since mp3 times. 

> For many people, callweaver will not be a viable alternative to 
> asterisk without this. Some folk will not buy the GNU-fundamentalist 
> "just make your provider use speex" argument.

all my providers here use PCMA (G711a). just don't support providers 
restricting to unfree codecs at all. they stink like skype.

> 
> I hope you have not scared the man. :-)

he must take it. this sounds like censorship.

> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Paulo
> 

y
tom

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