Going back to the first message in this thread (and others similar to it), I think the root issue underlying whatever frustration users/customers are feeling is not really open vs. closed source. Rather, it generally comes down to performance (i.e., perceived lack of) and/or bugs (usually real, rarely imagined). As many have mentioned, better development processes/control (incl. regression testing, etc.) would help address the latter. The former is more difficult, and perhaps a large portion of performance issues come down to the code base. There may be certain operations that PERL, PHP, etc., may never be able to perform as efficiently as C dialects or other compiled programming languages.
I have no idea what's towards the top of Logitech/Slim's priority list, but I'm wondering whether they aren't stepping back to take a look at the whole server package, and figuring out whether some parts of it shouldn't be modularized and then written using a code base that will address sluggishness and other performance symptoms. Of course this wouldn't be easy, but it would probably make it easier to release a server-in-a-box product (if that's what they have in mind) that would not get savaged by reviewers testing with large and/or complex media libraries. -- Balthazar_B ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Balthazar_B's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7366 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32904 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
