mudlark;181893 Wrote: > If anyone from Logitech is reading this please note that if Logitech > pull the plug on the open source side of Slimserver then all my > Logitech stuff will go in the bin. > > A game controller, a keyboard and mouse, a joystick, a steering wheel > and a squeezebox. > > I will never buy anything from Logitech ever again and I will use all > opportunity to encourage people to stay open source. > > I feel very strongly about this stupid and dangerous comment from the > first poster. If you think your views are reasonable go buy a closed > source device and keep your comments off this forum. > M. > PS > I've a good experience with an PVR the Humax Duo visio 9200. This has > been very buggy and is closed source. The updates are slow to arrive > and the experience isn't much fun. Slimserver is just brilliant by > comparison.
Chill out. Other people have other needs, and didn't necessarily buy the sb because it was open source, but because it was the best thing out there. Your insistence that they should shut up or go away adds nothing of any value to the discussion. Open sourcing a project is neither a panacea nor a guarantee of a disaster. The issue of bringing in people from sd to do things like integrate a unit test harness, make sure that there is good test coverage, blah blah blah (all the stuff many developers don't like doing) is pretty pertinent, and imho, a lot of people are actually thinking about things like this when talking about going closed source (incorrectly conflating some issues, as I've pointed out earlier). Have you yourself ever actually written any significant software, so that you have _any_ basis at all for talking about how "stupid and dangerous" this discussion is? I have, and find your position completely insupportable. -- totoro squeezebox 3 -> mccormack dna .5 -> audio physic tempo 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ totoro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5935 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32904 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
