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> The driver developers are working for Convergence, which is a > member of the Linux TV Alliance. I don't think they are totally > free. Will they be allowed to continue the development of the > driver ? I don't see any reason why the driver developers should not be allowed to continue improving the driver. I appreciate your decision to withdraw your project, though I don't think that it will help much in the long term. If it is technically feasible, sooner or later some stupid idiot will distribute an emulator and then the industry will try to blame the Linux community for knowing too much about Conditional Access. Somehow this reminds me of DeCSS. We started linuxtv.org in 1999 because we wanted to establish an open platform for the creation, distribution and reception for digital television. At that time, not many people outside of companies like Canal+, Beta Research or OpenTV had any idea of what digital television could be good for and Linux was considered an operating system for web servers. More than 2 years have passed and in my opinion we (the linuxtv.org community) have done a pretty good job. Today, many companies share our vision that digital television should be based on open standards and the reliable Linux operating system (needless to say that Linux is so reliable because it is free software licensed under the GPL). It will take some time until the people who today are concerned that pay tv will be cracked because of the Linux developments will understand that open source cryptography is the only way to create a secure platform (if a secure platform is possible at all). Sometimes I doubt that the industry is even interested in a secure platform. One the one hand, companies make big money selling insecure encryption platforms (based on patents and trade secrets) and on the other side crackers make money by selling cracked smart cards. This is not our business. yours -- Martin Springer, Chief Evangelist convergence integrated media gmbh GPG Key-ID 1024D/8EFE7B2F Rosenthaler Str. 51 ph/ +49 (0)30- 72 62 06 73 D-10178 Berlin fx/ +49 (0)30- 72 62 06 55 -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
