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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 06/02/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Wood</b> <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Steve Smith wrote:<br><br>><br>><br>> "Recording one program while watching another"?!?!?!<br>
><br>> JVC you'd better watch out, that VHS video idea you stole off Tivo using<br>> your time machine and then ported back 20<br>> years is coming to bite you!<br>><br><br>Well that's really an oversimplification of what the case is about,<br>
you'd have to read the patent app and the case to get a true picture.<br><br>Like a lot of us I was very happy to see TiVo using Linux, but having<br>seen them be so grudging about releasing source code, pushing OSS<br>
towards GPL3 and basically contributing nothing back to the community I<br>have come to realize that not everything using Linux is a good thing.<br><br>Now, with this specious (to me at least) case, I see that they are<br>
greedy capitalists like the rest of them.<br><br>beww<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br>
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<div><br>Yes just looking at the patentS (yes there are several) now.</div>
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<div>Very broad indeed. They even have one for a progress bar!</div>
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<div>Looks like Tivo are taking the SCO Unix route to business success.</div>
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<div>Of course the Tivo concept has been copied by practically every consumer electronics firm going now.</div>
<div>So potentially it's a great revenue stream for them.</div>
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<div>And Myth/GB-PVR etc???? Perhaps when they get round to sueing Happauge etc they'll extract a levy there for our use.</div>
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<div>Cute cuddly Tivo could be turning into a nasty, spiteful teenager.</div>
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<div>Cheers</div>
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<div>Steve</div>
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