Logitech are taking a bit of a risk with SD since Slimserver is GPL - they have only bought IPR to the SB firmware/hardware and possibly Squeezenetwork.
If users don't like the direction Logitech takes, it is quite possible for a small startup to make new Next generation/High end Squeezeboxes - it is not the same risk as when SD started. There are 6 yrs of developement in Slimserver and Plugins and it is proven. A lot of the functionality of Squeezebox can be understood from SoftSqueeze. Main knowledge gap is in DSP stuff and Wifi support. The barriers to entry are not high. To get to market asap, a new Squeezebox need only support WAV/FLAC (especially if high end) in the first instance as Slimserver will do transcoding. Other decoders/functionality could added after launch. -- bpa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28821 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
