On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:21:21 -0800, Dave Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One more note: you'd think they would have included the SqueezeBox in > the list of recommended players for feeding your stereo, but they left > out both SqueezeBox and Roku. Hmm, think they don't want their customers > reading about those products using SlimServer for free?
I think some people are reading too much into this. This company is from the same CEO that started Lindows, which I did not particularly like as a distro - but DID in fact give back to the open source community, and continues to do so (they released a very good WYSIWYG html editor, for example - that you can get the source to without needing to buy their product) GPL gives them the right to do what they are doing, so long as they follow the rules. Wether they contribute patches back or not is not necessary, any code worth having will make its way back simply because they have to comply with GPL themselves. They aren't using a stolen project, GPL was written specifically to allow software to be sold. For slim it sells hardware, for this group that's primarily what it is doing as well. Yes, it would be nice if they stated it was based on slimserver. Maybe they don't because some of their changes break squeezebox compatability? Maybe not, I don't know (I doubt it if the java thing works) But anyway - the software is licensed under GPL, so what they are doing at least appears to be in spirit of GPL - and what I have seen from the CEO - his products never interest me personally, but the companies do give back to the community. If it works with squeezebox, a free plug would be nice to the developers of slimserver. That is true, and hopefully that will come. -- http://mpeters.us/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
