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Soju
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How does Boxee contribution back to XBMC stack up vis-a-vis Plex? Boxee is also partially closed source is it not? The browser component, that lots of us are interested in, has yet to be backported.
I like the fact that Boxee promised access to Boxee Box for XBMC, but that's just a hardware platform not code back to the trunk. It be nice if we could load XBMC into an LG TV too but I think even if the Plex guys wanted that, which I doubt, LG may disagree easily and say no. So software is software and hardware is hardware, things that shouldn't be conflated IMHO. Hardware wise, its much more interesting to get open, stable, drivers for PowerVR than almost anything else right now. That would cover a whole lot of awesome upcoming kit on the market in the sweet spot of $50-$200.
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Jezz_X
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Just a FYI plex doesn't actually run on the LG tv at all, all the LG tv does is accept and play a stream from PLEX Media Server.
So its not really Plex on a TV like all the news posts say all it is, is PMS serving to the tv kind of like a Radio station serves music to your Stereo
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Global players like Apple & Sony and many others like to take open-source software ....
but sometimes they forgot about the gpl and give back the enhanced code they made ...
This is IMHO a shame ....
A lot of other open-source projects have this problem as well ... (busybox as a example)