Dan Sully;147909 Wrote: > FLAC support is here to stay. > SqueezeNetwork is here to stay. > Linux/Unix support is here to stay.
I believe that you mean this. But -- and I don't mean this to be harsh -- the whole problem with a buyout like this is that you're no longer in a position to make these decisions. If Logitech corporate decides that SqueezeNetwork is too expensive to maintain, or that providing support for Linux and FLAC isn't worth it, it doesn't matter how much you want to keep them around. And yeah, I know Logitech won't do that right now, and maybe they never will. But man, you can only watch so many good products die after being bought out before a pattern starts to become apparent. Anyway, though, that's where the open source thing comes in. One of the key motivators for me to purchase the Squeezeboxes is that the software is open source, so if Slim went under or got bought for pieces, my devices would still work (and could even be enhanced, if there was a big enough community or I was willing to wrangle enough Perl). So there's always that as a backstop, which prevents the worst case from being too terrible. -- mkozlows ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mkozlows's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=62 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28821 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
