E o Songbird abandona o Linux

Pois é, amigo, se você usa Linux e se você ama o Song­bird, seus dias de comu­nhão estão contados.

A equipe de desen­vol­vi­mento do Song­bird (um popu­lar e bas­tante bom player de músi­cas) anun­ciou no dia 2 de abril que estão aban­do­nando o Linux e se con­cen­trando somente no desen­vol­vi­mento para Win­dows e Mac.

O motivo da deci­são (segundo eles, com o cora­ção par­tido), foi ter uma equipe redu­zida, a difi­cul­dade de por­tar as melho­rias para Linux e ainda ter de ofe­re­cer suporte e por­que não fica­riam satis­fei­tos em for­ne­cer um pro­duto de ter­ceira cate­go­ria. (cof! Cof!)

Adeus, Song­bird, vá voar em outras pra­da­rias (e ainda bem que eu não te usava).

Agora, fica a per­gunta: será que vão dei­xar o código dis­po­ní­vel para a comu­ni­dade de usuá­rios dar con­ti­nui­dade ao tra­ba­lho que eles pre­fe­ri­ram não fazer?

Segue a nota, em inglês:

As many of you know we’re hard at work on NOFX and the rele­ase is loo­king really good – lots of cool impro­ve­ments, inclu­ding video play­back. Some of you have noti­ced that the Linux ver­sion has fal­len behind, lea­ding to some hea­ted, but healthy debate inter­nally about how to pri­o­ri­tize the deve­lop­ment hopper.

After care­ful con­si­de­ra­tion, we’ve come to the pain­ful con­clu­sion that we should dis­con­ti­nue sup­port for the Linux ver­sion of Song­bird. Some of you may won­der how a com­pany with deep roots in Open Source could drop Linux and we want you to know it isn’t without hear­ta­che.
 We have a small engi­ne­e­ring team here at Song­bird, and, more than ever, must stay very focu­sed on a nar­row set of pri­o­ri­ties. Trying to deli­ver a raft of new fea­tu­res around all media types, and across a growing list of devi­ces, we had to make some tough choices.

While our Linux users are some of the most pas­si­o­nate, do some kil­ler deve­lop­ment, and always pro­vide tre­men­dous input as to whether we’re on the right path or not, we sim­ply can’t con­ti­nue to sup­port a Linux ver­sion as we have in the past.

And, like you, we can’t stand to see our Linux pro­duct be anything less than outs­tan­ding. Unfor­tu­na­tely, we can’t make that hap­pen right now. Trade-offs are hard, and this is one of the most pain­ful deci­si­ons in the his­tory of the company.

We remain loyal to Linux and the ide­o­logy it repre­sents, so we will main­tain a ver­sion of the soft­ware for use by our Song­bird engi­ne­ers who deve­lop on the Linux plat­form. We’ll make that ver­sion avai­la­ble to the com­mu­nity. We will keep Linux build bots and host the Linux builds on the deve­lo­per wiki. That said, those builds will not be tes­ted and may not pick up new fea­tu­res deve­lo­ped by Songbird’s team.

When we roll out NOFX for Win­dows and Mac at the end of the month, you’ll see video sup­port – import, library mana­ge­ment and full screen play­back. We are also wor­king on full com­pa­ti­bi­lity with Win­dows 7 as well as sup­port for a range of new handsets.

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