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mherger;504112 Wrote: > Please note that there's no such thing as a Logitech decision to ban 3rd > party development or similar, thus no decision to change. > Sorry Michael, but there has been a management decision to not allocate any time for the Logitech developers to help the third party folks or to stabilize the API, etc. So perhaps you are technically correct and will be shown right in a court of law, but in practice, when there is no support for openness, and that means specifically allocating some small amount of engineering resources to helping the third party developers by documenting and stabilizing the API, then in fact, the support is gone and the efforts of the third party developers end. No need to split verbal hairs here. If third party apps/plugins are important to Logitech, they have to pony up some hours for it. How many hours, that is a management decision. But zero hours is effectively a ban. Also a ban is "allowing Logitech employees to contribute to the effort in their free time" as I've never seen a good software engineer who had any free time. There are always either features to add, bugs to fix, or vacations to take to recharge the mental batteries. -- pfarrell Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pfarrell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=200 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73698 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
