Good to hear that plans in-place to match the great capabilities of the
Squeezebox/Slimserver (when it running well) with a mature, disciplined
s/w development process.

As was pointed out, I was using 'open source' to conflate numerous
dimensions on which to place slimserver, such as - 

Open source - closed source as a licensing model
Community - in-house team for s/w build and testing
multi-platform - Wintel as target
Binary - perl as technology stack

Having read the posts, my original assertion was that slimserver was
currently placed at the atypical ends of many of these dimensions.

The mass-market for Squeezeboxes would be people who have already got a
ripped music library, which would overwhelmingly mean iPod owners using
Windows XP - that's just a fact. 

So would the current slimserver delight that marketplace? IMHO, no it
wouldn't as of 6.5.1 And I would wager that a non-trvial number of
Squeezebox buyers aren't even aware they need to run slimserver.

Looking forward to slimserver 7. :-)


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