Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Sunday 25 March 2007 07:46 \__
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Linux is de facto OS for TV set-top boxes
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| "The major chipset manufacturers are introducing new Linux platforms
>>>| almost monthly," said Ken Helps, managing director of Ocean Blue
>>>| Software.
>>>|
>>>| The attraction is that the Linux operating system will support
>>>| advanced functions without requiring a license fee.
>>> `----
>>>
>>>
> http://www.edn.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA6426925&partner=eb&spacedesc=news
>>> http://tinyurl.com/2zofx9
>>
>> That licence fee would be the key issue, wouldn't it? As
>> commoditisation continues in all these markets, then paying licence fees
>> for proprietary layers will not be sustainable.
>
> To put a slant, these royalties are "like a cancer that attaches itself to
> everything it touches".
>
I hadn't considered making such use of this highly emotive remark, but I
think that I will. As you suggest, it could be made us of in some very
interesting ways.
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