Just read "The News"... very sad, but not surprising :( Well there's not much I can add to the 47 page thread I've just read. Instead, I would like to think about constructive ways forward. A few observations:
1) The Squeezebox ecosystem and community is strong, active, knowledgeable and engaged. Yes there are gripes about bugs and quirks, but that is the same with any sufficiently advanced technology. 2) There are many installed system out there working perfectly, day in day out for their owners. 3) In many cases (particularly multi-device setups), these installed systems represent a significant investment in time, money and 'tweaking effort'. Replacing them with an alternative, no matter how good, is non-trivial. Consider the network, wireless, firewall config, audio ripping, organising your library etc etc. It's not like replacing your TV. This assumes there is even an acceptable alternative. I'm personally not convinced there is, for my purposes at least. 4) Despite the corporate gloss imparted my Logitech, the system has its roots in a small start-up / cottage-industry company. The early devices at least were fairly simple, but nicely executed. 5) The server software has always been open. 6) No SB device (to my knowledge) has ever become unsupported by the server, which to me implies the underlying client-server technology must be well proven, stable and - given that it has been in use for many years on old devices - relatively simple. This to me suggests there is a good possibility to sustain this ecosystem just in the same way that other open source projects live on. Maybe in time there's even a possibility to come up with basic 'thin' players (think SB Receiver) based on a Raspberry Pi or whatever. So I suppose my question is, what are the legal and technical barriers, if any, of forking the LMS development and moving away from reliance on Logitech? A new forum too, aimed at The New World (Free/Community, not UE). Possibly some kind of hum for open source developers? I don't know, it would just seem wise to me to start considering contingencies before we wake up one day and find the lights have gone out. Thoughts? sim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tigersim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11362 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96572 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
