hi, anybody else feels this sounds like goodbye?
you have done great work! greetings, Martin Springer wrote: > > 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 -- _ plain GmbH_______________________________________________________ markus schorer fon 089.540.149.0 heimeranstrasse 68 fax 089.540.149.44 80339 m�nchen http://www.plain.de -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
