autopilot wrote:
People are already talking about a new remote, which would be great,
however this opens up a whole new can of worms itself when concidering
todays takeover news.
Unless it's a IR based device (limited functionality and not what
people want) or just a fancy Logitech/SD branded web tablet (i.e. a
crippled 770), it's going to have to have some kind of proprietory
software if it's going to be as slick as, and compete with, the
Sono's.
[snip] Thats why i dont believe it can stay open source for
long, Logitech clearly intend to intergrate it into thier own product
portfolio. There is no way they will start making there own products
open, something will have to give.
There's a bit of a flaw in your premise. It would be perfectly possible
to create a fully closed-source remote control that integrated with an
open source slimserver using the already existing CLI and HTTP protocols
(CLI for command stream, HTTP for album art download).
As for closing the source of the slimserver itself, that would probably
be very difficult for Logitech to do legally. I'd be surprised if all of
the prolific community contributors to the server, such as kdf et al,
assigned copyright of all of their significant contributions to Slim
Devices. Since Logitech doesn't own full copyright over the codebase,
they'd either need the agreement of all the other copyright holders to
relicense, or to remove all of the community contributed patches to
excise the non-Logitech-owned code.
- Marc
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