The Boxee Box: too free to live?

It may still be difficult to wander into a local electronics retailer and come away with a desktop system running Linux. But there is likely no shortage of Linux-based devices on sale in that store; one needs only wander past the Linux-based phones and cameras to the shelf where the networked video players live. Linux dominates on such devices, but, as the recent history of the Boxee Box shows, "Linux inside" does not necessarily mean "free" or that the device has a future.

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