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To be fair, wasn't it DTS rather than Dolby who charged for DTS licences? Surely Dolby couldn't charge for their rivals intellectual property?

Sorry, yes, I guess I conflated the two. Anyway, point is that XBMC could do the same thing, castrate itself to pass Amazon's store requirements and allow users to load external libraries.

Even if the fireTV is quickly rooted and we figure out how to add XBMC to the homescreen (and both things will probably happen pretty quick, I'd guess), this is probably worth doing due to the tremendous amount of exposure from the store versus asking endusers to sideload. Like all things open-source, that requires a developer to take an interest and make it happen.

Don't quote me on this, but I'm pretty sure XBMC devs don't want to have to create stripped down versions of XBMC to get into App stores. XBMc could get into app stores I just think that the devs don't want to deal with having to strip down XBMC just so they can get it into an app store.