[mythtv-users] Hauppauge HD-PVR will not initially support Linux

[Brian Wood]

On Apr 8, 2008, at 12:31 PM, Yeechang Lee wrote:
>
> (And if Hauppauge's unwillingness to in-house develop a Linux driver
> equates to viewing Linux users as a "bunch of pirates" then, well,
> half the computer-peripheral makers out there apparently share this
> view, eh?)

Hauppauge and other Linux-supporting vendors definitely do not view  
Linux users as a "bunch of pirates", but they probably are aware that  
others take that view.

The new Hauppauge device does nothing that could not be done before,  
it just provides the means to do some things for less cost than  
previous devices. This is simply progress.

I don't think it's "paranoia" to at least consider negative actions by  
outfits that have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to try and  
put a teenager in prison, sued computer users that the courts have  
determined they knew (or should have known) to be innocent of any  
wrongdoing and supported the clandestine installation of rootkits on  
people's machines.

Forewarned is forearmed.

beww