On 5/5/05, Donavan Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rather than simply take Myth and run with it they > decided to "do the right thing" and embrace the Myth community and > it's developers and work with us to move things forward. >
<puts on fire proof speedo> Um, I don't see the part where they are "helping" to move things forward. If the bounty system encourages devs to work on projects which are then free for everyone, then yes, I see that. But if I need to subscribe to get the latest and greatest feature, then how is this different than LxM buying the devs? > They instead approached Isaac, myself and some others about > doing things right. I'm glad you put this in your email. Over the last year or so I've come to give a lot of weight to the things Isaac says/does. He seems to be a good bullsh!t killer. Thus, I would think, if he's involved, there must be some good to the greater community... hopefully. Not that he is required to look out for the community per se. > > * A recommendation engine for Myth. > Did they build this or is this related to the recommendation plugin that was devloped previously (and IIRC is being used by quite a few people). To be honest, $5.00 really doesn't sound like a lot to me... but I can't help but wonder what kind of machine this will set in motion. To quote the website, "LxMSuite puts you in the drivers seat: 100% of the profits from the our pilot project will fund open source development."... what happens after the pilot program? You can't be giving 100% of your profits away forever... can you? I couldn't help but notice this line from the web site FAQ: "LxMSuite is a non-free subscription service..." Now that just sounds silly. Call it what it is, a "fee based" service. What kind of double speak is "non-free based...". Eee gads. gs _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
