Opensource it!
Posted on: Tue, 09/22/2009 - 00:25
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Opensource it!
If development is truly done, you should consider releasing the code for the firmware and server. Let the nerds play with it. It may draw interest to the product. You could call it OpenDivX Connected ;)
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This same thought crossed my mind the other day...
If you guys aren't going to provide updates, support for new standards etc, you should opensource it.
It would not be fair if you'd discontinue further support and leave us with an obsolete box, especially since quite a few of us gave you our trust by jumping in quite early....
Nothing to lose, as KEROLiUKAS said...
I agree with the comments above entirely!
I love my device but the support is getting to become a joke - its clear that the DivX guys no longer want anything to do with this...
Please, please, please make this open source so we can all have a play and maybe keep this product from becoming like the Betamax! (Dead & Obsolete in case you wondered!)
This is something that should have been done in the first place, but of course was not due to the profiting potential. You might as well do it now. Nothing you've got to lose.