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Japanese Makers To Forge An Internet TV Standard

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. GPL procedure? by ryanr · · Score: 4, Funny

    The resulting source code will be made available through the General Public License procedure

    What procedure is that? The one where someone swipes some GPL code, tries to pass it off as proprietary, and has to be badgered and humiliated until they release the source or pull the product?

    1. Re:GPL procedure? by Duncan3 · · Score: 4, Funny

      No no, the one where hardware companies release the code because they make 100% of their money selling hardware...

      Like when software companies give away their software because they... oh wait...

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      - Adam L. Beberg - The Cosm Project - http://www.mithral.com/
    2. Re:GPL procedure? by rusty+spoon · · Score: 2, Funny

      Ahh, is that similar to the one where hardware companies make use of GPL code and then release their derivative code that is useless on anything other than their hardware?

      That's a great use of GPL.

      I guess the BIG question is; can the resulting boxes can be mod'ed to run Windows XP? ;-)

  2. Wow . . . by Selanit · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, they're going to forge this standard? Isn't there some kind of law against that? ;-)

    1. Re:Wow . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Forged standards? Does that mean that at the end of the product cycle, the standard must be cast back into the volcano it was made at?

    2. Re:Wow . . . by forged · · Score: 2, Funny

      did someone call my name ? ;)

  3. uh oh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    If they could just code a vending machine and toilet into that thing I'd NEVER have to leave my chair.

  4. When you forge you mean... by I-R-Baboon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Would this be like HTML forged standards?

    Or more like Dell's forged printer cartridge chip standard?

    Enquiring minds want to know!

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    -1 Overrated (Too many big words for me to comprehend)
  5. next step by VanillaCoke420 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Next step is to gather a bunch of corporations to form new standards for TV shows, in order to improve the shows too.

  6. In related news... by ChicagoFan · · Score: 5, Funny

    The United States government has announced in a press conference that this action is considered a terrorist act toward Microsoft. "Our allies would use Microsoft software for this task", said George W. Bush. "They are not with us, so they must be against us." Bombing of Japan begins tomorrow.