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SONICblue Sues TiVo for Patent Infringement
SVDave writes "Yesterday, Slashdot reported that SONICblue was going to start negotiating patent licensing with TiVo. It appears that SONICblue has switched strategies: today they've decided to sue TiVo for patent infringement. Given TiVo's patents on PVR technology, I would expect a quick countersuit, though SONICblue claims that ReplayTV does not infringe on any of TiVo's patents."
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I was WAY to excited. Couldn't even spell patent correctly. *sigh* I broke my cherry and just like most people,I rushed it. I can never have that back. I feel dirty now.
On topic however, where does this come in? Does this mean 2 companies are sueing Tivo now and that Tivo may now turn around and sue SonicBlue? Will Pause Technology expand to include SonicBlue in their current(?) lawsuit against Tivo?
What about Microsoft's PVR product? Is MS just too scary for anybody to even consider sueing??Or just too unimportant?
I mod everyone down who says "I'll get modded down for this." I hate to disappoint.
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Tito and friends...
It's like watching some kind of sitcom.
I meant to do finish up my thesis on the disease known as "vagina" last night, but I just ended up masturbating all night again. At this rate I'll never finish this thing by next troll-tuesday!
Color flashing, thunder crashing, dynamite machines.
this is a fabulous day for trolls.
Color flashing, thunder crashing, dynamite machines.
on your face!
I think it might be time to bin the Bender/Fry/Bebop/Laim/whatever code and start redevelopment in a real programming language. Look at wonko or k5, both similar ideas, but coded from scratch and considerably more robust than this mess is.
SONICblue Sues TiVo for Patent Infringement, is no big deal. Why? Because TrollMaster 2001 was released a long ass time ago. So go to Frost Pist Brewery and check it out.
CmdrTaco is really scared about this - it makes high performence trolling quicker and more fun.
Got Frost Pist?
ok troops, I believe this is the perfect time for a troll attack on adequacy.org. ALL YOU TROLLS WHO NOW KNOW THE SECRET OF THE WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE POST, please go to adequacy and troll it up. They run slash code and I imagine it will be a while before they get the code to fix the wide post bug. =)
Color flashing, thunder crashing, dynamite machines.
Netcraft has confirmed: TiVo is dying Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered TiVo community when recently IDC confirmed that TiVo accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that TiVo has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. TiVo is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict TiVo's future. The hand writing is on the wall: TiVo faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for TiVo because TiVo is dying. Things are looking very bad for TiVo. As many of us are already aware, TiVo continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the TiVo market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that TiVo has steadily declined in market share. TiVo is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If TiVo is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. TiVo continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, TiVo is dead.
Fact: TiVo is dead
another correction...
Those who can't, patent and then sue.
I know this is OT but what OS does SonicBlue use?
LEPP