Amazon's reasoning for kodi being a pirate application is due to "there is hardware being sold that bundles software that is used to download illicit software". Where this software is being sold ? Amazon.

So essentially Amazon has no problem for hardware "vendors" selling preinstalled kodi w/ plugins that kodi foundation does not condone or even allow and even is fighting against but they have a beef against having the software itself in their store. Hypocrisy anyone?

What's your real connection to Finland? At one point there was lots of media coverage about german/finnish millionaire being busted and what not but besides of few photos of finnish in nz mantion and side remarks of your mother being a finn, there hasn't really been any proper statements from you and your ties with "juro" roots..

The thing is, The Unix Way allows for improvement without throwing (decades?) of coding into a bin and starting from scratch.

Sounds a lot like Mesh networking ?

You obviously have not been into public sauna in Finland if you claim that only healthy people go there..

Consider that Finland has something like 5 million people and 3 million saunas. Virtually almost *everyone* can go to sauna almost any time of the day with flick of a switch and waiting for 20-30 minutes for sauna to heat up..

And ideas like that are the root cause why it sucks to be sysadmin.

I do understand your rationale but its just not valid in every case. Continuing with car analogy: if your rear mirror breaks or run out of gas, you wont just buy a new car because after a while, you don't have any more money left.. Your daily life revolves with so many admins jobs that its just bullshit to say that they are not part of equation for making things happen in the world.. Consider how many sysadmins work is even in your direct route when you made that post: Isp's, possibly your company's, how about those who maintained ordering system where net gear was purchased. Banks where money was transferred to buy those good, paying salaries.. Admins who keep /. running. Sure, world would survive without admins but what kind of world would be.

Admins are enablers for Your Work....

Check Boxee's twitter account & blog and you spot one atleast one person behind it thats happy about this ..

They even claimed that they had influence on fcc that ruling turned out like it did.

http://blog.boxee.tv/2012/10/14/boxee-welcomes-fcc-rulemaking-that-opens-door-for-innovation/

Qik & Bambuser are bound to be available for Android & Iphone .. both available for symbian & maemo atleast..

Nothing is automatically "shared" from boxee but the feature i really like is the "social feeds". Basicly, you get a list of what your friends have been sharing in twitter,facebook et al and then you get to watch those when you start boxee. For me this is actually pretty nice feature, for example: wikileaks sends a quite a lot of video links almost everyday and those are typically also rather long vids too so when i get home and fire up the telly, they are all there in my queue ..

And adroind ofcourse - forgot that its linux .. and "java" too.

This is exact same pr bullshit they have pushed already. Only names are changed to protect the "innocent". What was once linux, is now MeeGo.

OMG! Who's this guy putting himself on the pedestal and calling himself an Evangelist. Yeah! Im evangelist alrite! Such a big man, thats what i am! =)

Well, boxee software is a fork of xbmc .. Aaand, it's just more "couch-friendly" compared to plain xbmc.

And software is freely available so there's no real reason to get their hardware unless you actually want it..

1) Actual porting of the game - if you read the article, the guy who did the port did not know the codebase from the start - you propably knew your codebase in and out ?
2) Multi format packaging - its not only about building debian rules or spec file and you are set - if you target multiple platforms and hardware architectures via proper packaging - you need to be checking a lot of build options with dependencies..
3) website changes
4) and testing ..

And last, possible promotion ?

Releasing stuff might not always be just about making the code compile and hoping it works..