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Is MOXI Toast?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-want-my-dtv dept.

onosko writes "Moxi Digital, one of the big hits of the 2002 Consumer Electronics Show in January, has bitten the dust, absorbed by one of Paul Allen's companies, Digeo. At CES, Moxi showed a Linux-based PVR and home entertainment server system that used Ethernet or 802.11a to distribute video, audio and JPEGs throughout a house. Last week, Digeo announced that it would not use Microsoft's interactive TV software." This really looked liked the best of the upcoming PVRs. Bummed to see it collapse. Here is a somewhat related and really entertaining short bit about Tivo turning 3

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  1. Open Source by Da+J+Rob · · Score: 1, Insightful

    What we need an open source initiative. How hard would it be? All we need is a sourceforge project, and to avoid the DMCA they have all thier components be 'plug-ins' so that if some part of the project gets sued/shutdown etc... the whole project isn't compromised.

    Any takers on this task?

  2. Bit the dust??? by Nintendork · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I would not think that by assuming a new ownership, they've died and gone away. They just got bought out by a much larger company that will have more resources to make their projects a reality. This is a good thing.

    1. Re:Bit the dust??? by erat · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Who's to say Moxi's business plan didn't suck?

      Just because a company has cool technology, that doesn't mean the company has any clue about bringing that technology to a wide market. If technology is all that was required to make a product sell we'd have a much cooler bevy of gadgets to play with. As it stands, cool technology in the hands of technology buffs and geeks has proven to be less than successful.

      As much as most techies would like to think to the contrary (not necessarily you, Jeff, but others "out there"), cool technology needs sales and marketing dorks as well as pointy haired bosses to push this stuff out to the market in a manner that is familiar to other sales and marketing dorks and pointy haired bosses. You must speak the language before communication can truly flow... By being absorbed into a bigger, flashier company, this technology -- perhaps in slightly altered form (why would Digeo buy Moxi if it only wanted to kill its technology??) -- may have a better chance of becoming ubiquitous. The only geeky startup that I've ever seen do well without dreaded non-technical upper management is Google, and even they are getting an upper management staff to "dork-ize" the business so they can move up the food chain. It's an unfortunate fact of business, at least in the US.

  3. Sure about ownership? by ScuzzMonkey · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Word on NPR this morning was that they were BOTH Vulcan funded companies. Are you sure that this is really a change in ownership, or just more of a consolidation?

    --
    No relation to Happy Monkey
  4. Slashdot Going Away! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Slashdot is disappearing, because BlockStackers sold out to Andover.net!

    Slashdot is disappearing, because Andover.net sold out to VA Linux!

    Slashdot is disappearing, because VA Linux got out of hardware!

    ahem.