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Neuros Solicits Help From AppleTV Hackers

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the little-help-here dept.

JoeBorn writes "Highlighting the fact that Neuros officially encourages contributions to its open source device (GPL), it has published an open letter soliciting the help of AppleTV hackers. 'The transition to IPTV creates a golden opportunity to ensure that the gateway to the TV set becomes open to all.' Neuros draws a connection between open source and free media, and attempts to articulate why an open box can extend the freedom of the internet to the TV set."

2 of 59 comments (clear)

  1. Re:is this better than an XBMC? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Connecting a Gigabit Ethernet adapter to a USB port, what a great idea, how come no one thought of that before ?

  2. Different motivation by iamacat · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Apple TV hackers focus is legally running Cocoa applications on a $300 device. If you just want a Linux set top box, your best choice is probably a slightly used notebook. You get to customize hard drive space, gaming capabilities and so on according to your needs. Neuros attitude is golden, but does their hardware bring any additional value into the picture?