I'm likewise in the "congrats" camp. Sean and the team at SD, as well as all those other contributors from the developers forum have done a fantastic job and developed a great product in the Squeezebox. But I'm not surprised that SD has decided to come under the umbrella of a larger organisation in order to take it to the next stage.
The fact it was announced here first and immediately followed by some posts from Logitech shows that everyone is sensitive to this community's likely reaction. The big issue for me is how SD can continue to harness this vibrant and quite unique user / developer base to improve the product, whilst making it "user-friendly" enough to move it to mass market. Someone recently suggested the software could split into two - a "it just works" version (mp3, wma only not so many option), and the current ultra configurable version. I hope that the deal with Logitech takes account of the things that are likely to be most important to the community developer group - open-source, cross-platform, multiple format support being the three that come to my mind. In the time I've spent on the boards, my impression is that they can act as a crucial "sense check" on new product features and code. Without knowing any of the details, I suspect that SD could have been sold for more if the product line had simply been handed over and the software closed off (or at least the current software no longer supported and new, closed source software subsequently implemented), and so I'm hopeful that this is the beginning of just another chapter. -- Siduhe ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28821 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
