djfake;525033 Wrote: > As I read through this (and many other threads), plus the long delay for > the Squeezebox Touch, reviews of the Squeezebox Radio, Android, and this > post http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=490916&postcount=76 , > I can't help but feel that at some point in the future, my SB3 "Classic" > will be left in the proverbial dust. > > If I am not mistaken, slimserver/squeezecenter has always published > under the GNU license, thus a fork to maintain the software "free" of > logitech is possible. This however could affect any firmware updates to > my SB3, since it is proprietary. > > Should I fear for the future? With very trivial tinkering in the SBS code, you can "freeze" your Classic at it's current firmware level. I've done so with my Transporter and I've stuck with SC7.3.4 for my server software. Unless you're a MySB.com user, you aren't "forced" to upgrade. Prompted to, yes, but forced, no.
Of course Logitech has the complete right to tweak MySB.com any way it pleases, and tweak firmware to match. It's their baby. It may be maddening to those of us who have written plugins that interacted well with SN.com and now find we're having trouble getting the same functionality out of MySB.com. But this doesn't in any way represent a betrayal of trust on the part of Logitech. They never made any such promise. MySB.com exists to drive hardware sales. Perhaps some day it could generate it's own revenue stream...but it doesn't now. And given this, is it any surprise that current development in SBS and on MySB.com are predominantly focused on the new hardware features of the Radio and the Touch? My Transporter, with my library and server setup, works pretty darn flawlessly. I'm much more worried (but not that much) about the Transporter's eventual hardware death (I tend to keep gear for a _long_ time...I've got a food processor in my kitchen from the mid '70s) than I am about its firmware somehow becoming obsolete. -- gharris999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76172 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
