radish;148237 Wrote: > They have no control over Slimserver, it's open source and they don't > own it. Softsqueeze is also GPL, although the primary (only?) dev works > for SD (now Logitech). But if for some reason they did stop development > of it inhouse, there's nothing stopping someone else taking it and > moving forward.
While that's true, the part that isn't open-source and critical for interoperability is the firmware. So, if Logitech takes the software in a direction we don't agree with, we'll be left with the last version of the firmware that did what we wanted it to do. Logitech -could- change the firmware in such a way that it locked out SlimServer in favor of whatever proprietary direction they (thoretically) take the device and software. I'm not saying that Logi-Slim would do this, but the possiblity of it happening does exist. Perhaps before that happens someone will have reverse-engineered the firmware code ... but then that starts treading on shakey legal ground. -- jeffluckett ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jeffluckett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28862 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
