[mythtv-users] Zap2It fiasco - what can we as users do?

Phil Bridges gravityhammer at gmail.com
Tue Jun 26 15:10:33 UTC 2007


On 6/26/07, Victor Perez <spectro at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/22/07, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> > Michael Jones wrote:
> > The best thing he could tell you is: Just wait and see what happens. We
> > have already been told that the devs are working on it. I can't think of
> > any group better qualified to look into the matter, or more likely to
> > succeed.
> >
> >
>
> What are the devs working on?, we need to know. A deal with TMS or any other
> listing provider (if any) is not good enough. We need to make mythtv
> independent of any third party commercial source and I suggest the devs to
> come out of the dark and talk so we can coordinate a single effort,
> otherwise we are going to have a mess.
>
> Our current scenario:
> - Group A (the devs) is doing God knows what
> - Groups B, C, D and F are negotiating a license with TMS to create a
> subscription based datadirect.
> - Groups H, I, J, etc are coming up with free solutions (bittorrent, nntp,
> cddb like, etc)
>
> What is going to happen:
> - Some groups comes out with a commercial solution
> - Others create a bittorrent based solution
> - The devs come out with their own thing and since they manage the code
> refuse to merge the other solutions.
> - Other groups fork the code
> - Welcome to mythhell
>

In addition to the other mailing lists proposed, perhaps we should
come out with MythTV-The-Sky-Is-Falling-So-Fix-My-Free-Software-Right-Now-Or-I'll-Have-A-Tantrum.


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