cliveb wrote: > Am I being dense, or have I missed something? Last time I checked, > Squeezebox Server was open source, and Slimproto was freely published. > If Logitech choose not to continue development of the SB ecosystem, > what's to stop someone else picking it up and running with it? > In what way would anyone need to purchase the "rights" from Logitech? > > (Maybe recent versions of LMS include non-open source components? If so, > it is easy to backtrack to the last fully open source SBS and progress > from there).
Perhaps the same things that stopped anybody doing it when Logi was still purportedly interested in the SB ? Taking control of a large codebase is certainly difficult, but not impossible. The problem is, what happens if you start this huge effort, and the historical inventor of a tech wakes up and decides to compete ? Most likely, you're dead because you're not yet better at it, plus you're not as legitimate to the average customer. Remember pippin's semi-sour comments when Logi ushered the free controller app, as an example. A kill was definitely possible, although iPeng was far from being without merit nor legitimacy. I don't believe the Slim stuff is laced with patents, but without the brand and a clear agreement with Logi I guess the adventure can't go much further than a forked SBS in maintenance mode, and perhaps software players. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ epoch1970's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16711 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96213 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
