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A Ready-Made MythTV Set-Top Box in Australia

Posted by timothy on from the plug-and-go dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Australian Personal Computer magazine published a review of a new all-in-one set-top-box based on linux. A quick analysis of the device yields some cheats/hacks that not only allow you to enable the advertisment skipping feature they disabled, but could allow system compromise. The system also runs a GPL version of MythTV - anyone else see any licensing issues?" Only if they don't follow the GPL.

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  1. Re:I've been waiting for this... by black+mariah · · Score: 0, Redundant

    They are under no obligation to contribute back to the community. Their code contributions have to be released, but even then only to the customers that actually purchased their product. The grandparent was referring to the whiny bastards that complain about companies using GPL code and not contributing to 'the community', probably in the form of fondling RMS's nads every other day. They are bound by the terms of the license, not the terms of what a bunch of geek-ass zealots THINK they should do.

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