Quoting Rasmus Wiman rasmus@wiman.org:
Joseph Smith joe@smittys.pointclark.net wrote:
Yeh, maybe I'm ignorant also?? What do you mean by Tivoization?? LinuxBios on set-top-boxes?? Hardware hacking?? Fill me in....
"Here's the source code for the stuff in your tivo. Feel free to recompile it. Oh, by the way, the tivo will checksum the binary, so if one single bit differs from the stock software, you won't be able to install it in the tivo".
/Rasmus
Oh, ok. I hate people/companies that suppress the open source concept. If your going to post the source code and it is not open source you might as well change you name to Micro####, if you know what I mean.
So instead one could just develop a new bios so he/she would not have to deal with that checksum bs and be able to install their OS of choice.
Thanks - Joe