James Barrett on 9 Nov 2007 21:29:39 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] OT? Chumby


On Friday 09 November 2007 03:54:52 pm Edgarde Stokes wrote:
> Wikipedia Talk:Chumby notes that whatever code you develop for the
> Chumby, Chumby owns. Or so it's being interpreted. Exceptions kindly
> made for GPL.
>
> http://www.bogost.com/blog/chumby_and_the_rhetoric_of_ope.shtml
>
> Es.

The chumby seems to use some sort of P2P protocol.  The alpha version 
apparently used bittorrent, I do not know about the production model: 
http://files.chumby.com/source/ 

Additionally, their license agreement forbids modifying a chumby in ways which 
hamper its connection to the chumby servers or in any way hamper other 
chumbys from connecting to your chumby.  I would suppose that whatever you 
happen to put onto your chumby _will_ become public in some way, shape or 
form (granted that you don't break their agreement).  Oh, and if you hack the 
chumby, you void its warrantee.
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