tigersim wrote: > > This to me suggests there is a good possibility to sustain this > ecosystem just in the same way that other open source projects live on. > Maybe in time there's even a possibility to come up with basic 'thin' > players (think SB Receiver) based on a Raspberry Pi or whatever. > > So I suppose my question is, what are the legal and technical barriers, > if any, of forking the LMS development and moving away from reliance on > Logitech? A new forum too, aimed at The New World (Free/Community, not > UE). Possibly some kind of hum for open source developers? I don't > know, it would just seem wise to me to start considering contingencies > before we wake up one day and find the lights have gone out. > > Thoughts? > Those of us that can do it has already thought about doing it several times during the last years with decreased Logitech development resources, but we have all realized that even if Logitech only puts one or two full time developers into maintaining it, that's still better than having 2-3 spare time developers which already is fully occupied with supporting their third party plugins/applets/apps on their spare time today. At least as long as Logitech doesn't spend their time to intentionally making it harder to extend their platform or remove features we want to remain.
I'm not saying it won't happen, because I do believe something will happen eventually, I'm just saying that it's not urgent as long as Logitech still spends some resources to keep the system working. I'm not saying that this is the case for you, but sometimes it's kind of funny that people who haven't showed that they are prepared to spend their own spare time to make other people happy without any economical compensation ask other people to do it for themselves. Generally I don't think you or anybody else should ask other people to create an open source project and offer it for free to the world unless you have tried to do it yourself, without the experience you really don't know what you are asking people to do and what kind of effort it requires. It's one thing to offer a new geeky/interesting feature/add-on for free, it's a completely different thing to spend your spare time to support/maintain basic features year after year which people just expect to work. My personal feeling is that for long time survival, we really need something with a business perspective to back up an effort as the one you suggest, as a spare time open source project available for free with no new non geek player hardware it's going to die over time. The future will tell who will fill the hole Logitech has left, might be someone familiar or might be someone new, but based on what I've seen during last 1-2 years I don't expect Logitech to do it themselves. Independent who will do it, it wouldn't surprise me if the new journey in some way starts here in this community, so sticking around in the community and keep using Squeezeboxes might be a good idea even if you don't believe Logitech is focusing on the right things at the moment. To anyone that really want to fork LMS today and have the development skills to do it, first make an interesting third party plugin and try to maintain/support it for at least 3-6 months, so you at least know what your are doing before starting to fork LMS (which is a lot bigger effort). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96572 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
