Are digital living rooms the next frontier for open source? I've had my eye on some interesting developments in this area recently. Ars Technica has a good
analysis of the announcements from Neuros last week at OSCON about how open source set-top boxes are headed our way. And Matt Asay has a
good item up about Open Remote and Control4--both focused on open source home automation. How far can embedded Linux and other open source offerings go in the digital living room and home automation spaces?