Sure, I was thinking about this at lunch time. They could indeed change the slimproto implementation to lock out slimserver, but the firmware upgrade can't be forced so those of us with existing units can just stick with the existing firmware. Look at the Sony PSP - many people are running old firmware versions just so they can exploit security holes to play old NES games on it. I'd certainly run an old Transporter firmware to carry on using Slimserver.
So Logitech would end up having to: * Rewrite Slimserver from scratch (no small feat in itself) * Break compatibility with all existing plugins (thus losing a lot of the appeal of the system) * Completely p*** off the dev community, ensuring that SD's best customers never buy anything from them again And then, of course, the slimproto changes would be reverse engineered and put back into the GPL slimserver fork anyway. Reverse engineering for the purposes of interoperability is specifically permitted under copyright law (in the US, anyway). All this for no obvious upside...I just can't imagine why they'd even want to do any of this. So I'm not really worried about that. What I am worried about (in the longterm, I trust Sean & co as long as they're around) is lack of worthwhile new models, and lack of firmware updates pushing new features back to older models. The one thing we (as a community) can't do anything about is stagnating firmware development. -- radish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 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
