Mod this up. The iphone is heads and tails better than the Japanese offering. Note: I use the singular there as EVERY JAPANESE CELLPHONE IS EXACTLY THE SAME. Japanese phones are nothing special. A few of them have some neat features, but none of them near the software sophistication of the iphone. If you want to talk in terms of the cellular networks themselves the high speeds offered you would have a pretty solid case for a Japanese lead, but in the case of handsets I haven't seen anything that approaches the iphone here. A ridiculous fallacy. Runaway imaginations with an (un)healthy dose of cynicism.

That is an Amino STB. Maybe check with them. Odds are Minerva is only reselling. Probably using a Sigma CPU, which by default ships with a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel based SDK. uclinux. Busybox is standard in that case. Ask Amino. Or Sigma Designs. A *huge* portion of the STB market is running uclinux or Montevista these days. Unmodified Busybox is standard fare. Is this really a violation? Is the violation in question simply that they did not provide him with an unmodified Busybox? (available elsewhere too) This doesn't seem so dark and nefarious to me.