Mnyb wrote: > Is ther anyone thinking about some open player protocol ? I take a guess > that slimproto or what it's called for our squeezeboxes actually are > that open . That someone could write players and servers . But I guess > no one has thought of advertising it as an open standard with > LMS/mysqueezebox.com as some kind of reference application :)
Vendors call their proprietary technologies "standard" as a marketing ploy - but they are weapons. Open standards do not help vendors as customer can move away from their tech - Apple created their codecs such as ALAC, AIFF and don't support Flac. MS created WMA, WMA Lossles etc. Vnedors do not like or want Open standards - only when customer demand it by buying other products wuill they implemen an open standards. uPNP was nearly reasonable but DLNA "standardised" it by minimising functionality so there was still room for proprietary stuff. A long time ago - a email standard was created X.400 - it had built in standardised (i.e. not vendor specific) authentication, encrytpion and nonrepudiation. It has all the facilities that people need now but vendors saw a system that would compete against their Outlook/Lotus Notes/cc:mail etc. so the vendors X.400 implementations (required by govts) were slow, clunky and cumbersome and vendors "persuaded" companies & people to use their proprietary systems by making sure their systems were flash, slick and flashy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104383 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
