Carsten Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- 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.
