2016-01-09, 05:59
I wonder how much Hollywood already is in this community... The drama is there.
Ofc Android is great. It's highest selling and growing influence available for the Kodi software. Those millions Android users are important. Besides the platform-independent "Piracy thread" (that's content-related) is also not just because of Android, also ARM and it's combined low-prices draw a lot of shippers. Platform doesn't matter, be it hardware or shipping via Amazon, Allibabba, Ebay; Kodi will survive on Github.
The problems are related to those shippers. In extended words: the distribution of the Kodi software. Whether they distribute "pirated" addons is not in the realm of XBMC Foundation; they aren't even distributing. Only some devs and sponsors (or who ever wants) distribute Kodi on their own title. Here is the friction among teamKODI, Kodi Foundation and God knows what other forces.
I think it's good that ARM/Android has lead to this discussion about those intertwined subjects. Conflict of interests become more obvious and without proper guidance of it, this mess is what happens. Even with many great devs, Fernetmenta, Fritsch, Montellse and Koying to name a few those forces can still manage to disrupt the project. Call it however you want: there are conflict of interests all over the place while the Foundation is clearly lacking progress in this matter for so many years.
XBMC Foundation in it's current shape can't control this friction. This way, the Foundation is besides pointless also useless. What is it's mission statement anyway? I can't find it anywhere... Same for the (historical!) bylaws, votes, annual reports, meetings notes, etc. Clearly this is not inline with the ethics around XBMC Foundation (which none of the donators can't fact check). However, community have been blown away with distribution related legal stuff like piracy stands and trademarks.
Maybe still not in compliance with some app-stores like Amazon; let it be. The Kodi project has more important things to fix than listening to sentimental Davilla about dropping it's most successful platform. What a joke.
ps. Koying: Probably your future work ends up sooner in a locked down ecosystem than Kodi itself. The project itself can even manage without Android.
ps2. This is my mantra since XBMC Foundation existence. Then I was told it by JMarshall that it would take some time. I think now is the time.
Ofc Android is great. It's highest selling and growing influence available for the Kodi software. Those millions Android users are important. Besides the platform-independent "Piracy thread" (that's content-related) is also not just because of Android, also ARM and it's combined low-prices draw a lot of shippers. Platform doesn't matter, be it hardware or shipping via Amazon, Allibabba, Ebay; Kodi will survive on Github.
The problems are related to those shippers. In extended words: the distribution of the Kodi software. Whether they distribute "pirated" addons is not in the realm of XBMC Foundation; they aren't even distributing. Only some devs and sponsors (or who ever wants) distribute Kodi on their own title. Here is the friction among teamKODI, Kodi Foundation and God knows what other forces.
I think it's good that ARM/Android has lead to this discussion about those intertwined subjects. Conflict of interests become more obvious and without proper guidance of it, this mess is what happens. Even with many great devs, Fernetmenta, Fritsch, Montellse and Koying to name a few those forces can still manage to disrupt the project. Call it however you want: there are conflict of interests all over the place while the Foundation is clearly lacking progress in this matter for so many years.
XBMC Foundation in it's current shape can't control this friction. This way, the Foundation is besides pointless also useless. What is it's mission statement anyway? I can't find it anywhere... Same for the (historical!) bylaws, votes, annual reports, meetings notes, etc. Clearly this is not inline with the ethics around XBMC Foundation (which none of the donators can't fact check). However, community have been blown away with distribution related legal stuff like piracy stands and trademarks.
Maybe still not in compliance with some app-stores like Amazon; let it be. The Kodi project has more important things to fix than listening to sentimental Davilla about dropping it's most successful platform. What a joke.
ps. Koying: Probably your future work ends up sooner in a locked down ecosystem than Kodi itself. The project itself can even manage without Android.
ps2. This is my mantra since XBMC Foundation existence. Then I was told it by JMarshall that it would take some time. I think now is the time.