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Sorry if this post is a bit off topic, just wanted to respond to reniera, I don't plan to continue the discussion in this thread after this post. reniera wrote: > > Erland is the one who put this license manager thing together. He also > forced us to upgrade to commercial versions with no way back and way too > expensive contributions. > Just to defend myself a bit, all old versions of my plugins are still available for download from my download page and can be installed manually, so there is definitely a way back if someone wants that for my plugins. The two things I personally found important when introducing the commercial concept for my own plugins was: 1. Keep them as open source so anyone that wants to provide a modified version will able to do so in case they feel they can do a better job than I do or just want to introduce functionality which I don't want to introduce. 2. Make it possible to manually download and install the old versions if you don't want the latest commercial version which is officially supported. reniera wrote: > > I have disabled plugins autoupgrade. > Which is generally a good idea, I also have it disabled, I even suggested to Logitech that it should be turned off by default when auto upgrade was initially introduced. In my case I have it disabled because I want to have full control when an upgrade happens to ensure that I don't accidentally break the system just before I want to use the system for music listening. However, I can also understand that most people just don't want to care about software upgrades, they want it to happen automatically in the background without having to do anything and in this case the auto upgrade feature is a great addition. reniera wrote: > > I wait for logitech to develop this rating/stat system as a Core > version. > Happy waiting, I've waited since beginning of 2006 and even offered to do the work for them so they can include it in the core product, still it's not there yet. As you know, I agree with you 110% that rating/statistics should be part of the standard product. reniera wrote: > > If they don't, i trust the market to provide an alternative somehow > sooner rather than later. > I guess I can be considered to be the market then, since I've already provided an alternative through my plugins, and you can even continue to use your beloved Squeezebox hardware instead of being forced to replace all of them with hardware done by someone else than Logitech. I'm not as positive as you are regarding this because neither Logitech nor Sonos seems to think that ratings, statistics and smart playlists are something the market is interested in. I think our best hope is that either some new vendor does something or Apple or Google does it since they might want ratings to be displayed in their music stores to make people get a better music purchasing experience. Unfortunately neither Apple nor Google is anywhere near to provide a whole house audio system, they are great for a single room audio solution but not for the whole house. reniera wrote: > > All latest develop'ents aren't needed. That's why i disagree with > erland's logic when he says we need to support financially the 3rd party > dev. There is just no new dev needed. > If you don't want any new development I agree with you 100% that you shouldn't spend money to support developers to do work you don't think is needed. My personal feeling is that most useful functionality during the last years has come from third party developers (not from Logitech), but I completely understand if that's not the case for people who mainly want the system to offer basic functionality. If you don't want extras from third party developers, there is of course no need to support them, I was just trying to say that people who like third party add-ons should consider supporting them if they want them to exist also in the future. reniera wrote: > > Only maintenance is needed and the deal when i installed the free > donationware version was that basic maintenance is covered by my > donation. > I'm sure maintenance could be covered by donations if everyone reasoned like you do, unfortunately most people selects to not provide a donation if it's voluntary, which results in too few donations which results in that donations doesn't even cover the effort to maintain the plugins. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95782 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
