Google Is Going To Open-Source SageTV

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Google Is Going To Open-Source SageTV

Google is going to be open-sourcing SageTV, the proprietary DVR/HTPC software Google acquired back in 2011...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=SageTV-Going-Open-Source

[Dukenukemx]

Good cause the current selection of TV capture software sucks on Linux. It sucks on Windows as well but it has MediaPortal and that so far works the best. Too bad the mediaportal people have no interest to port it over to Linux. MythTV is just mind numblingly hard to get anything working on it. If it isn't my capture card it's the convoluted way it handles everything. Every other Media software either handles ATSC or just acts like XBMC. Sorry, I mean Kodi.

[slacka]

Where's the Love?

When Google is wrongly accused of not supporting older Linux kernels., you get posts like this:

I have to agree with you, Google is fast becoming the new Micro$oft and Ubuntu is following along in their footsteps.

Now lets see how people react to Google once again making another huge contribution to the open source ecosystem.

[curaga]

Now lets see how people react to Google once again making another huge contribution to the open source ecosystem.

You see, a company's evilness is a max() operation. max(evil, good) = evil.

It's like Sony, after all the shit they did it doesn't matter if their division cured cancer.