The Programmer Who Could Save Tivo

Damon Darlin from Business 2.0 writes "We just posted a story on Arthur Van Hoff, the programming legend who now works at TiVo. He was one of the Java geniuses at Sun (has almost as many patents as Bill Joy) and started Strangeberry, which Tivo bought in January. the story tells how his Strangeberry software will be given away to developers of web content. The next generation Tivos will then be able to recognize web content and direct it to the appropriate home device. This could be the stuff that saves tivo because none of the set top boxes will have this ability.

Comments

Java genius?

[Anonymous Coward]

Now *there's* an Oxymoron!

Thanks to Java, I have a hard time finding competent programmers just out of school. Java's worse than BASIC for teaching bad habits.

And some of his fellow Java Geniuses weren't too bright! What's that they say about "birds of a feather?"

Re: Java genius?

[stratjakt]

Ya but look at how many patents that guy has!

I didn't know "genious" on slashdot was equated to "how much frivolous IP you claim". That Darl McBride guy must be the greatest mind ever to walk the earth!

MSFT is on a much talked about patent-filing binge. With each new application, they become "smarter".