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Re: Televisions Going the Linux Way

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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Friday 24 Jun 2011 17:37 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
> 
>> ____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Friday 24 Jun 2011 11:38 : \____
>>
>>>> http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Google-TV-20-Fishtank/?kc=rss
>>> 
>>> It occurs to me that Google, like Microsoft, is trying to get its foot in
>>> the door in a lot of areas, and, also like Microsoft, having initial
>>> problems (think of the original Nexus phone), and then working through them.
>>
>> I think that only the Linux revolution will be televised. Microsoft
>> failed in this space for a long time. Google "verizon microsoft" or
>> something along those lines.
> 
> I thought MS was making progress with IPTV in Europe, at least according to
> an IEEE Computer magazine article I read a couple-o-three years ago.

Yes, I wrote about it in COLA back in the days. It appears to have gone nowhere
as I no longer hear about it. Remember Silverlight? British channels dumped it
like a cake past expiry date. It turned out to be a turd, too, not a cake.

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