Steve King
08-14-2007, 08:49 AM
Has any thought been given to open-sourcing iSiloX and iSiloXC? As far as I can tell, these aren't the bread and butter of iSilo's business. They're freebies to entice you to buy the reader. Opening the source would let the user community help to improve the converters, porting them to new platforms and updating old cruft (such as the Mac version insisting on using classic-style ':' path separators).
The benefit of opening up the source is that you get free work from geeks like me who want to address specific shortcomings. The only disadvantage I can see to releasing the converter source code is if there's some sort of top-secret proprietary algorithm to writing the iSilo format. But I'm guessing that there isn't. :)
The benefit of opening up the source is that you get free work from geeks like me who want to address specific shortcomings. The only disadvantage I can see to releasing the converter source code is if there's some sort of top-secret proprietary algorithm to writing the iSilo format. But I'm guessing that there isn't. :)