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Japanese Makers To Forge An Internet TV Standard

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday March 30, 2003 @10:18AM from the or-will-they-end-up-bickering dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Five Japanese TV manufacturers will form a working group to hammer out technical specifications by October for digital TVs with Internet access. They will develop a consumer electronics version of Linux to provide functions and performance required for digital products. The resulting source code will be made available through the General Public License procedure."

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BSD license by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-30 11:12 · Score: -1, Flamebait

This is one area where the BSD license shines above GPL. We need to actively push the Japanese companies towards the light and highlight the superiority of BSD.