On Jun 19, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > based on my experiance looking at the software released for tivos, I > think you are over-estimating these numbers. if there are more then a > dozen people producing things that are good enough to be useful and > releasing their results as opensource software I would be surprised.
Yup. And how many more would there be should it not be tivoized? More hackers would buy the devices, a number of them with the explicit intent and interest in modifying the software in it. You're losing all that. > and for all that the FSF is claiming that tivos can't being modified > it's really not that hard to change. But is it legal? How many would contribute changes to a list where there are TiVo people watching, which might expose these contributors to liabilities? -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
