[mythtv-users] Ubuntu Media Center team dumping MythTV for Elisa (yuck!)

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, May 16, 2007 10:46 am, Erik Warner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to let you know that Ubuntu is starting its "Ubuntu Media
> Center" initiative, and that they are apparently choosing Elisa
> instead of MythTV:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuMediaCenterTeam
>
> Given that MythTV is way more feature-rich, stable, and powerful,
> forgoing MythTV is a terrible decision on the part of Ubuntu and its
> parent company, Canonical. MythTV is _the gold standard_ of Free/Open
> Source media centers. Both MythTV and Ubuntu have great communities,
> and they could certainly benefit from a mutual relationship.
>
> I hope you will join me in attempting to convince the Ubuntu Media
> Center team and Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu's founder,
> http://MarkShuttleworth.com) that MythTV is the obvious choice for the
> Ubuntu Media Center.
>
> Thanks,
> Erik
>
> BTW: Our DRM-loving, anti-GPL, anti-Qt/KDE friends at Fluendo are the
> main culprits in this deal, as they are the ones pushing their own
> semi-proprietary product.


Frankly, who cares? The idea of free software is to promote choice, not
stifle it. Let them use what they want, I don't think it will
significantly affect the number of mythtv users, nor the quality of the
product we love.


-- 
Nick Rout