On Jun 14, 2007, Bron Gondwana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Tivo gets sick of the endless flamewars on lkml, signs a copy
> of QNX, pushes it out to the hardware.  No more Linux on Tivo.
What do we lose?

Do we actually get any benefit whatsoever from TiVO's choice of Linux
as the kernel for its device?

Do TiVO customers lose anything from the change from one non-Free
software to another?  (the Linux binary, as shipped in the TiVO, has
become non-Free)

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