[NTLUG:Discuss] Cue-Cat and open source software

[Michael H. Collins]

	Yep, I have a cuecat hooked up to my I-opener that is running Linux. 
It is my right to hack on anything I buy.

greenglow484 at juno.com wrote:
> 
> In the last month, our local Dallas Morning News has aggressively
> promoted the new "Cue Cat".  It is a barcode reader:  Reading barcodes in
> the local paper, Parade Magazine, etc., and sending the user's web
> browser over to a target web site for the advertiser, etc.
> 
> Fort Worth-based Radio Shack, that great new partner of the Microsoft
> Network, is also aggressively linked with Cue Cat, and gives away free
> Cue Cats in their nationwide retail stores.  It's notable that the outfit
> behind Cue Cat, a company called Digital Convergence, is headquartered
> here in Dallas.  Their leadership includes Jovan Phillyaw, a fellow who
> is, or was, the host of a late-night TV show on the Internet a few years
> ago.
> 
> Last evening, I came across a website which goes into some length about
> the Cue Cat, and that company's pretty negative views about reverse
> engineering;  to me, it seems counter to open source software.  If
> anyone's interested, the URL for that site is (please pardon the raunchy
> name of the URL/ site):
> 
> http://www.flyingbuttmonkeys.com/foocat/
> 
> This apparently has been a topic on SlashDot in the last couple of weeks.
> 
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