Schedules Direct and conflicts of interest
Robert Eden <[email protected]>
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With the tv_grab_sd_json grabber recently added to cvs I thought I would mention the history of SD and conflicts of interest... I am currently President of Schedules Direct. Schedules Direct was formed in 2007 by a number of open source project leaders (myself included), when the data source for tv_grab_na_dd announced it was was shutting down. We purchased the same data creating a seamless transition. We have a mission of providing support for OSS applications including a high quality, stable, supported, data source. SD is registered as a non-profit corporation in Washington state. We tried for and didn't receive US IRS 501c(4) non-profit status. We pay taxes and donations (which we no longer accept) are not tax deductible. Membership fees pay for guide data, financial support for open source projects (often convention booths, but sometimes hardware), servers, and overhead. A few folks are paid a reasonable amount to maintain the service part-time. SD owns the XMLTV.ORG domain, so if I get hit by a bus, OSS leaders still control it. Robert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j _______________________________________________ xmltv-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xmltv-devel