I've just spent over an hour reading through the entire 25 pages and growing of this thread. I've owned a Squeezebox2 for about a year and a half now, and have recently been contemplating buying a Squeezebox3. Just thought I would add my 2 cents, although I'm probably not going to say anything that hasn't already been said in one way or another.
First, congratulations and best of luck to the Slimdevices folks! Second, I fear this is bad news for the *NIX, open-source fans out there. While I love music, I do not consider myself an audiophile. Before buying, when I researched the product I was very impressed with comments that I saw about the quality of the product itself, and of the sound quality of the device. But what really hooked me was the open source software, the community support for it, the plugins, etc. Logitech is going to want to push this out to the mass market, and unfortunately the mass market means Windows-based PC's. Right now the slimserver software is primarily written in Perl and uses a MySQL backend database. Granted these things run under Windows, but they have their roots in *NIX world. If 90% of the future Slimserver owners are running Windows how long will it be before they decide it is in their best interest to develop software that is more native to Windows, in addition to, or in replace of the current open-source model? Then, if most of the customers are running the Windows version of the software where will the software R&D money go? I appreciate the responses by both the Slimdevices and Logitech folks reassuring us that the current software model isn't changing any time soon. However, I certainly don't see these responses as any type of guarantee. I think the market will dictate the future direction of the product, both in terms of hardware and software. As others have pointed out we have the current software, which we can continue to use. And hopefully there will remain a strong open source community involvement. I'm just not sure of the Logitech/Slimdevices direction. Hopefully I am proven wrong! -- soxfan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ soxfan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5697 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
