A couple of days ago, a specific plugin stopped working. Within a day or two, one of the volunteer developers provided a simple patch. No weeks or months waiting, just a few confirmatory posts confirming the problem. Job done. Power of open source. 
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Really? Is it though? I’ve had the same experience when I identified several bugs in some mainstream software which definitely wasn’t open source.
I was referring to the open source ecostructure of the Lyrion system which allows for rapid fixes and innovations.
And do you have specific examples of software which explicitly doesn’t? Asking because fixes and their speed are a function of many things including the complexity of the issue and it looks like a cheap point is being scored on a multifaceted issue. There are huge downsides to open source and if there were not then it would be everywhere. It isn’t.
I’m sure. But Lyrion is a success story. I used it for about 15 years, long after my Squeezeboxes gave out. It allowed me to connect my Chromecast audio pucks, the last of which I just replaced, to my music library as well as my streaming services. And by he way, my replacement is a Wiim streamer, which is a native renderer for Lyrion (no plug-in needed).
The number of plug-ins is extraordinary
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I use mainly the youtube & cd-player plugins as well as the Tidal one. The WiiM devices are pretty good (with frequent firmware updates - not sure how good the room correction feature is).
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What a fantastic piece of kit the SBT is.
I remember many years ago someone on the forum complaining Naim couldn’t get a no longer working BBC problem fixed after 3 days, yet an enthusiast member of the public could get the SBT playing BBC again within 24 hours. 
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I agree it’s a success story. My sole point was re: patch speed somehow being a function of being open source. It is not.
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Point taken