On 6 June 2013 11:53, olivier nyssen <[email protected]> wrote: > A great post about smart TV security: > http://mherfurt.wordpress.com/2013/06/01/security-concerns-with-hbbtv/
Yes, for me it comes down to this pattern: Software in PCs and mobile devices come from companies more proficient in the software area (Google, MS, hunders of smaller players and subcontractors). It works pretty well *despite* Hardware companies tinkering with the software, not thanks to them. In contrast, large chunk of software in STB and TV comes from hardware vendors, less proficient in (to say at least). That software was apparently developed in processes that were created for silicon and SoCs creation, not for the software development such as operating systems, middleware, user space, 3rd-party developer tools. In the context of Tizen, I am not sure a wider alliance of Software _and_ Hardware companies is planned, eg. #1 and #2 TV vendor working closely in love. Even if such cooperation eventually come, I do not see any reason for it to be openly governed or even open source. Possible impulse could come from regulations made by governments, similar to what they forced on Microsoft in the PC market, what actually make sense for STB and TVs as they become real computers over years and are so often connected. -- regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek Kexi & Calligra & KDE | http://calligra.org/kexi | http://kde.org Qt Certified Specialist | http://qt-project.org http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/general
