“SageTV in a notice to its users said on Saturday that it had been bought out by Google,” Electronista reports.
“The open-source home theater software developer said it signed onboard because of a ‘shared vision for open technology’ that would move their Internet-focused experience,” Electronista reports. “They hoped to reach an ‘even larger audience’ on different products, platforms, and services, hinting it wouldn’t necessarily be limited to Android.”
MacDailyNews Take: Whenever you see “open” in relation to these Google platforms, simply substitute “less polished, fragmented, and insecure.” Doing so cuts through the bullshit like a knife.
“The takeover has angered some users since it has already pulled its store and most other links aside from the company forums, making it difficult to get a copy of SageTV itself,” Electronista reports. “Google hasn’t commented on what its intentions would be, although most already suspect the company is being bought to improve the struggling Google TV platform.”
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Moribund is the new beleaguered. 😉
And I thought moribund was the new clueless.
Moribund is more like increasingly senile, from a biznizz perspective, to the point of wondering whether financial euthanasia is called for. Cut the budget and kill the project.
“open” is a biggest bullsh*t buzzword today. It means nothing just as a big gushing open hole. Best wish to fools who believe in such opennism and may more foolish feed them.
Especially when you have a credit card widely advertising that they are “Open”. Banking is diametrically opposite anything that honestly could be considered “open”.
Open – it does not mean what you think it means.
In modern usage with respect to mobile devices, “open” is being twisted to mean anything and everything other than Apple. It makes no sense to me, but that’s the way it is. It is like a political soundbite – easy to remember, but no substance.
Much like other softwares that I have enjoyed, google buys it up and it’ll disappear into obscurity…
Well, technically any ‘open source’ project cannot belong to anyone. It is public property with the public able to do whatever the like with it as long as their source code additions and changes remain public as well.
SageTV is equivalent to a flavor of Linux. If Google corrupt and damage SageTV, the source technology lives on in some other form or forms.
and a new 10 year beta cycle starts.
SageTv is nice. Hopefully someone forks the source and it lives on with a new name
How many flavors of Linux are there these days? At least 20.
Also consider what’s been going on with OpenOffice. Sun Microsystems donated the original StarOffice code into an Open Source project and provided sponsorship. Oracle bought Sun and sat on the project. The LibreOffice gang brought the project back to life, Oracle told them to piss off, they did and LibreOffice lives on as a branch. (Not that I like LibreOffice yet. So far it has severe crashing problems on Mac).
Im not surprised with what happened with open office. Oracle is a turd and Larry has no soul. They drove all the real talent out in short order after taking over sun.
Google’s “open” really means “allowing us to sell more ads using your personal/private information”.
Exactly! Seem that these so called journalist forget that little tidbit.
Open as in open your butt to become Google’s personal bitch.
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LOL. I think Google should have “Backdoor Lover” from Dujour as their theme song! haha
LOL @ MDN’s take. Classic! 🙂
Why are Google & Samsung so sad and got 0 ideas of their own??
All ive understood “open” to mean for any company using open source software is simply I can aquire the source code, which they are bound by the license to distribute.
Google can advertise it any way they want the only legally binding requirement they have to fullfill is providing source code
Which also means your app sucks without giving away source code. If your app is so good, everyone would want it, then why giving away your source code? All so called “opennism” is actual another saying: “I am sucks and incompetent on making good useful app, but I am giving away my source code, and please give me some crumble after you use it.” Or another example, I am impotent and therefore I have a “open” relationship, come and use my girl/wife. Bullsh&t.
Open Source software largely powers the internet (linux/BSD) and has many quality applications which are built from it.
OS X is based on BSD, which is licensed under an open source license, the BSD license.
The license of the source code says nothing about the quality of the software. Sure there are some crap open source apps but there are some real crappy commercial applications too and some of them aren’t cheap!
You confuse “open” with source code license. BSD isn’t “open”. Linux is “open”.
Well that is a debate better served on a different forum!
I agree with you in a lot od ways.
BSD is currently considered an Open Source project with a number of branches. These include Apple’s Darwin, OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD. The original BSD license was rejected as ‘open’. However, subsequent versions of the license have been approved as legitimately Open Source. In fact, the current BSD license is considered more ‘open’ than the current GNU license.
You can read about it here:
BSD Licenses
What is this “Google TV” you speak of? I’ve never heard of it before.
Same here. I felt like a cave man, I have never seen any Google TV in the wild. What brand is selling it? Samsung?
Hmm. What is the best biological analogy? How about this:
One day Google tried breeding a television (a horse) with some code they pulled out or their orifice (an ass). The resulting beast had the best aspects of both parents, except it was sterile, dead end technology (a mule), hobbling its manufacture and salability. Therefore, the creature became an obscure reference in the technology history books.
IOW: When was the last time you saw a mule in the wild?
The ‘Google TV’ was began selling in October, 2010 via various devices from:
• Sony, who infected it into a line of LCD HDTVs and a Blu-Ray player. The bestselling TV version is #2,768 in Amazon Electronics; The Blu-Ray player is #1,113.
• Logitech, who infected it into their Revue boxes. Its best selling version is #314 in Amazon Electronics.
• Dell, who are reselling one of the infected Sony TVs, #58,242 in Amazon Electronics.
I’ll join in with wondering what SageTV is, or was. Never heard of that, either.