The obvious risk to slim devices if they do this is that some other company
can produce a super budget version of the SB, load the SB firmware onto it
and completely undercut Slim Devices potentially putting them out of
business.
Quite frankly, I just don't see all that much value in the existing SB firmware that couldn't be easily duplicated from scratch by someone else building a similar product. After all, it *is* a "slim" device, meaning that the box does very little on its own; nearly all the heavy lifting is done back at the server, and that's already open source.
So open-sourcing the Squeezebox firmware would result in Slimdevices picking up a lot of new features from its users for free, and since they already make a very good hardware box at a reasonable price I don't think they have much to worry about from being knocked off.
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