Paulo Scardine wrote:
> thomas schorpp escreveu:
>>
>> history showed such things have been always replacements since M$ 
>> stole X-Windows and other stuff from MIT.
>>   
> FYI Microsoft stole GUI design from Apple, who stole it from Xerox PARC...
> I assume the rest of your statements have similar accuracy.

wheres the evidence?

>>> 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?
>>
>>   
> Please, read "100% RFC compliant" instead.

i read what i want, thank You.

>>> 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.   
> We who, white-skin? Don't you know the core developers position on this 
> matter? There are already free implementations of some patent encumbered 
> codecs in the wide, but they will not be included in callweaver until 
> the patents expire, period.

i acknowledge You called me a racist. my brasillian neighbour next door 
just asked me what kind of brasillian developer You are and laughed ;)
include it Yourself or do You always rely on official advisory and delivery?
open source wont prevent You from.

> 
> Also some of the patents in question where granted over HARDWARE 
> implementations, so the question if software patents are enforcible on 
> your particular jurisdiction is not even relevant.
>>> 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.
>>
>>   
> You just made the argument I told you some people don't buy.

buy what You want. but dont complain if You've to wait months for extra paid 
"hotfixes"  of proprietary stuff as usual.

>>> I hope you have not scared the man. :-)
>>>     
>>
>> he must take it. this sounds like censorship
> How rude!.

thats NOT rude :o

> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Paulo
> 

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tom
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