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Personally i hope they just buy em and then burns em after boxees failure with the DSM-320
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2013-07-03, 19:05
(This post was last modified: 2013-07-03, 19:09 by Robotica.)
Note that some boxee founders also played an important role in setting up the xbmc foundation. Also, untill recently, they were on the xbmc foundation board.
I mean, what could this mean for the sponsership deal with boxee..
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2013-07-03, 19:31
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It's an old deal Martijn.
Also interesting is that Samsung stated to buy talent and assets, while this community and over at ffmpeg is the real deal.. 30 million for those few libs boxee developed; imagine the worth of xbmc and underlying technology.
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2013-07-03, 19:40
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Indeed old deal, case closed. Move along.
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2013-07-03, 19:53
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Yeah, hopefully Samsung, as the new owner of the fork, is usefull for xbmc users but I think they strip the former xbmc code and integrate those few proprietary libs boxee made in their own linux-based firmware.
They paid good money for just that and 40 employees. Maybe Avner sold his bubble once again..
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Wow, Boxee manages one last middle finger to all its remaining users. You'd think they would at least turn on local recording via that USB port on the back of the Boxee TV, but nah, that would make sense.
RIPBIH, Boxee. You sold out to the cable companies, screwed your users multiple times, and took a dump on open source software. You won't be missed.
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I know I'm going to regret saying this to Robotica but
I would seriously doubt if Samsung has any interest in the older xbmc side of things even boxee ditched it a year ago. It is more likely that they have been purchased for the programming staff and assets (read patent type stuff) that they developed for the cloud dvr stuff and putting that and its streaming into Samsung products in the future.
I would be surprised if this has anything at all to do with anything xbmc related
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2013-07-04, 12:24
(This post was last modified: 2013-07-04, 12:41 by Robotica.)
(2013-07-04, 10:07)Jezz_X Wrote: I know I'm going to regret saying this to Robotica but
I would seriously doubt if Samsung has any interest in the older xbmc side of things even boxee ditched it a year ago. It is more likely that they have been purchased for the programming staff and assets (read patent type stuff) that they developed for the cloud dvr stuff and putting that and its streaming into Samsung products in the future.
I would be surprised if this has anything at all to do with anything xbmc related
I think we say the same thing... Do you know which patents boxee owns?
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Well I don't know if they own any which is why I said "type stuff"
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2013-07-04, 13:33
(This post was last modified: 2013-07-04, 14:04 by Robotica.)
I searched for boxee patens but there aren't any on that company. So samsung just bought some content deals (including a payment model to share revenue with the content provider), some copyrights and the workforce (with the knowledge of bringing GPL derivate software to embedded devices).
Shutting boxee down leaves integrating some of those functionalities in their own linux-based firmware. I think Samsung likes the way boxee did this.
Locking hardware and utilizing free software (while extending it with closed source software) is just to tempting...