I actually agree with some of this, but saying media portal will get shut down by companies for indirectly supporting these things is a little much i think.
I see why you cant directly do this but surely someone writing a plug-in should not be suppressed.
Open-source can never be shut down, it just wouldn't happen, and people should fight for that right, otherwise these big media companies will just walk all over the consumer time and time again.
I do however take the point about having a good relationship with hardware suppliers.
Personally I have been a member of the dbox2/dreambox community which is also open source and they have not had a problem with any of this. The development of the images has been amazing when people got together and worked as a team. Better than any commercially available solution.
Just as a thought, is the dreambox plugin going to be banned too?
Funny I have such strong views when I dont even use MDAPI
