[mythtv-users] Slightly OT: Interesting linux tidbit

[Anil Gupte]

In fact most DVRs nowadays, especially TiVo are Linux based.  MS is just not 
robust enough - can you imagine a DVR that needs to be rebooted everyday?

By the way, speaking of GPL, what constitutes "changes to pre-existing GPL 
software"?  If a company uses a GPL software like Myth, then replaces various 
modules for a different applications (say security), is that considered 
"changes" or "new code"?

Anil Gupte

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael J. Lynch" <mlynch at gcom.com>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 8:45 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Slightly OT: Interesting linux tidbit


> chris at cpr.homelinux.net wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 08:14:53AM -0500, Michael J. Lynch wrote:
>>
>>>The other day I accompanied my mother to a local big box electronics
>>>store to help her purchase a sat tv system.  She ended up getting a
>>>receiver with a built in DVR.  I was looking at the index for the
>>>user's guide and noticed that one of the appendicies was the GNU GPL.
>>>
>>>I wonder...is the source available for the box...NOT!  >-)  Anyway
>>>I just thought it was interesting.
>>
>>
>> The GPL says that they must release the sources for any changes made to
>> pre-existing GPL software.  They do not have to release the sources to
>> proprietary software they developed to run on top of a GPL'd operating
>> system.  That is a popular misconception that figures prominently in
>> Microsoft's FUD against Linux.
>>
>>
>
> I know that...hence "NOT".  As a matter of fact I work for a company
> that does exactly this.  I'm intimately familiar with what the GPL
> does and does not allow.
>
>
> -- 
> Michael J. Lynch
>
> What if the hokey pokey IS what it's all about -- author unknown
>
>


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