[mythtv-users] Zap2it Labs Shutting Down?
Jay R. Ashworth
jra at baylink.com
Wed Jun 20 20:35:34 UTC 2007
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 04:27:51PM -0400, ryan patterson wrote:
> I think people are too caught up in the unauthorized use of the
> zap2it data. Reading between the lines of the zap2it posting,
> I think the main reason behind this is TMS is going to change
> the backend database structure and they don't want to have to
> pay somebody to rewrite the datadirect client that accesses the
> database. The unauthorized use by commercial entities ( i.e. a
> college student sells a few premade mythtv systems for extra money)
> can not be significant. But it makes for a nice scapegoat.
I like that answer even better.
Of course, they'd probably get 4 or 5 volunteers from here to do it in
their spare time (or subsidized by the base) who are better DB
programmers than the people they already pay, but...
Cheers,
-- jra
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