Only the best bits will be backed up..

then for $100/month id like a dedicated 10mbit in each direction.

If you buy a car, lets say a "Ferrari" any model at all, you dont own the licence or any rigt to its design. As such you are not allowed to recreate the car you just bought in any way. Particularly in design and in style.

As such this applies to buying a TiVo, a compeitor cant buy a TiVo and say, i own the design, the source code and its copyright. So really you have no right to touch what TiVO did, despite whatever licensing its under.

Okay you can argue that TiVo uses the linux operating system as a platform, but really just because they made something that runs on a GPL'd operating system doesnt mean they should give you source, espically if not a single line of code used inside the product is GPL'd.

You know if linux wants to stop being a cult and become mainstream it really should think about the issues with this. Why so many enterprise companies dont want to use linux is evident in this thread.