[mythtv-users] Commercial releases of MythTV?

[steve at nexusuk.org]

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On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Stelios Valavanis wrote:

> i'm surprised nobody from D1 has chimed in here. i think commercial efforts 
> are a big boost to mythtv (and all open source efforts) even if they don't 
> contribute funds though they should.

I fully agree that commercial systems running MythTV are a Good Thing.  
However, it would be nice for D1 to post to the lists using their own 
domain name in the email addresses or clearly signing the messages so that 
everyone here can see what contributions they're making.  IMHO if they are 
seen to be contributing then there should be no bad feelings from either 
side.

I do, however, believe that there is a difference between _building upon_ 
some software to make a product (e.g. if you sell a web-based 
product that run's on Apache) and actually using some software _as_ the 
product.  In the case of Myth, I would consider it to be a end user 
product itself rather than being the building block for another product, 
and I would argue that in that case it is not right to completely strip 
out the Myth branding (maybe they should leave a small MythTV logo in the 
corner of the theme).

Just my 2 eurocents worth :)

On another note, does anyone know what D1 are using to provide the 
listings?  Are they scraping some site with xmltv or are they providing 
the listings themselves?

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 - Steve                                             http://www.nexusuk.org/

     Servatis a periculum, servatis a maleficum - Whisper, Evanescence

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