<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 5, 2007, at 5:12 PM, Tortise wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV><FONT size="2">Hi Brian</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2">I was not looking to claim the idea as mine, having posted a link where someone else had given some thought to it. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2">I think the Myth frontend might be customised to work on TiVo somehow. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2"> <DIV><FONT size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2">What I was hoping to do was stimulate some interest in someone with the skills helping out. </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2">Thinking about this some more, if one could, for example, run up Ubuntu on the TiVo box then one would be almost there!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size="2">Seems to me someone with the right skills could do this quite easily. Sadly that is not me, yet anyways.</FONT></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>It's not a question of "skills", it's a question of proprietary information about patented devices. Those with the knowledge and ability to do this would still be constrained by NDAs, software patents, copyrights and other legal problems.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>In short, it ain't gonna happen, at least not legally.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But I'd certainly love to be proved wrong, I have an old series-2 in the garage :-)</DIV></BODY></HTML>