[mythtv-users] Commercial releases of MythTV?

[Simon Kenyon]

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On Friday 19 March 2004 18:19, steve at nexusuk.org wrote:
> 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?