There's one thing I don't understand here: If it's really as unimportant a feature to you as some claim here, then why is it worth to make such a fuss around it?
I _know_ how much work it is not just to develop something for the Squeezebox environment, but more importantly, just to MAINTAIN it. You have to work on it almost every day, not to add new functionality but just to keep it running and to help people make it work for them. Yes, TrackStat of half a year ago will probably no longer work today. If you use Squeezebox Server of today, that is. The reason for this is actual WORK that has to go into it to keep it running. Erland has been outspoken here for YEARS now, that he needs help because it's otherwise beyond what he can stem to support his plugins. As far as I can see without getting any help. All of his plugins are under GPL. If you are unhappy about his pricing: just take the code, do the maintenance yourself and distribute them for free, if you really believe that's more fair. If you've read his licensing page you should know that because he writes it there himself. I've seen how much Erland has contributed to the Squeezebox community and he's one of those people who I believe belong into the category of "without him, the Squeezebox would already no longer be here". And I'm serious about that. Because he helped to make it the system of choice for a lot of people who now are buying Squeezeboxen and making Logitech continue the product. Ans as opposed to others like myself, he never got rewarded for it so far. How many people donated in the past. Is his pricing fair? I don't know. Everybody has to decide for him or herself how much a feature is worth for them, there is no such thing as a "fair" or "unfair" price as long as you have the choice, if this stuff is so unimportant to you, why not just uninstall it? -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote and *New: iPeng for iPad*, at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90975 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
