JonWill;584043 Wrote: > As someone who comissions software this is just not the case - Pippin > will have put in far more work that he would have done and for far less > than if he was contracting/ employed for the simple reason that its > usccess matters to him more - he owns the IP, he has a stake in the > success of future versions, and (don't get me wrong, Pippin, this is a > compliment) he seems to have an obsessive desire to make his own (and > therefore our) SB experience as good as possible. > > If this was contracted out, Logitech would be charged for all the > udpates/ bug fixes/ feature enhancements. There would be Project > Mangament, software licences and a profit margin on the costs. And it > would never be as flexible to user demands. > > Bit off the discussion here, but thought I'd add my thoughts ...
first, logitech had options... they could have made the app open source, and given it away for free, just as they do SBS, with the idea that it helps HW sales. or, they could have made it open source and charged for it anyway. or, they could do what pippin and the other 3rd party vendors do, and not made it open source, and charged for it. it just seems to me that they could have done something to be first in the space and have their brand there, and given all the 3rd party implementations now out there, done so for a reasonable cost, that eventually would have been profitable. i do agree that whatever they did would NOT be as good as what pippin has done, for the reasons you state, as well as logitechs poor track record. but would pippin and others have done ANYTHING IF logitech had gotten there with something ADEQUATE that was free or $5 or $9? thats the question. -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 & sbc (my home) / sbrec & ipeng (parent's home) - sbs 7.5.2b - win xp pro sp3 ie8 - p4(ht) 3.2ghz, 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - d-link dir-655 - 45k+ mp3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82366 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
