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Open Source at TiVo

Posted by michael on from the small-price-to-pay dept.

CowboyRobot writes "ACM Queue has an article by TiVo co-founder Jim Barton, in which he explains how the company relies on open source technologies to create a closed-source product. A good lesson in how other companies can do the same. From the article: Careful management of our sources to abide by the terms of the GNU General Public License while protecting our proprietary developments is a small price to pay for this benefit."

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  1. Re:Isn't TIVO bankrupt yet? by jwilloug · · Score: 0, Troll

    TiVo doesn't sell hardware. They sell a subscription service to some end users, and they sell the TiVo software to hardware manufactures that want to make a non-crappy PVR (including several cable and satalite providers, DirecTV in particular).