[vdr] Re: [linux-dvb] Re: Bad news (summary)

[Markus Schorer <ms@plain.de>]

hi,

anybody else feels this sounds like goodbye?

you have done great work!

greetings,

Martin Springer wrote:
> 
> Carsten Koch <Carsten.Koch@icem.de> writes:
> 
> > Guido Fiala wrote:
> > ...  > Maybe it's no serious possibility - but how about all of us
> > list-people > together supporting convergence?
> >
> > Good idea.
> > What convergence needs of course is business, not pittance.
> >
> > Here are a few first ideas what we can do:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Thanks a lot for your support. It is good to know that there are
> people out there who actually understand what we are doing.
> 
> I am proud of what we (the linux-dvb hackers and the convergence
> employees) have jointly created during the last two years. While Tivo
> and ReplayTV are sueing each other about the question of who invented
> writing data on a harddisk, we are constantly improving VDR, dvbstream
> and other useful tools for receiving, recoding and transmitting
> digital television.
> 
> Many set-top box manufacturers are already using our LinuxTV and
> DirectFB (http://directfb.org) technology for their internal
> developement and industry consortia like the TV Linux Alliance are
> considering using it for their standards. Due to the GNU license, our
> Open Source projects will definitely survive, whatever happens to the
> company convergence who made it possible.
> 
> A single company cannot dominate the market anymore by defining the
> technical standards of digital television. The Linux community owns
> the source code of digital television technology based on open
> standards like DVB and MHP. Thus we are able to change today`s
> television to whatever we like. This is why I am confident about the
> future of LinuxTV.
> 
> yours sincerely
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