Comments for Mac OSXBMC Becomes Plex at http://www.automatedhome.co.uk , comment 1 to 3 out of 3 comments http://www.automatedhome.co.uk Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:09:18 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/New-Products/Mac-OSXBMC-Becomes-Plex.html#comment-73 My name's actually "Feingold", not "Fieldgold" :-) - elan Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:41:36 +0100 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/New-Products/Mac-OSXBMC-Becomes-Plex.html#comment-72 Thanks for the clarification Gamester17. I guess XBMC will always be xBox Media Center to me as that's the platform where we started to use it (and still do everyday). I think the new "Plex" name on Elans fork will help to remove the confusion. M. - Otto-Mate Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:11:37 +0100 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/New-Products/Mac-OSXBMC-Becomes-Plex.html#comment-71 A more detailed clarification of the XBMC name and its ports and forks: To start with the title of this article should to stay correct be renamed from "Xbox Media Center Mac Port Called "Plex"..." to the complicated "XBMC for Mac's OSXBMC fork renamed to Plex". You see, the original XBMC is no longer named "XBox Media Center", since it was made cross-platform (ported to Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows) it was a few months back officially been renamed to "XBMC" (and that is not an abbreviation any longer, see xbmc.org which is the official website). XBMC (at the xbmc.org website) is and always will be the original upstream version of XBMC (and forks like Plex, Boxee, and MediaPortal will probably always continue to copy code updates from the original XBMC, same as we do from them if they implement a new feature or function that we like, that iss the nature of open source). Now to the recent history and reason of OSXBMC being renamed to PLEX; Elan Fieldgold, as then Team-XBMC developer member, originally ported XBMC for Linux to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard later forked away from XBMC and called his fork OSXBMC (I will not go into details but the fork was due to development practice differences), Elan and Team-XBMC at that time agreed that it would then be best if he renamed it from OSXBMC to something else as Team-XBMC plan on continuing our version of XBMC for Mac to avoid the confusion from having two Mac OS X version out there with "XBMC" in the name. Now almost months later Elan has announced that the new name of OSXBMC is Plex, and that a new domain will be followed soon called plexsquared.com So to sum up: OSXBMC (www.osxbmc.com) becomes Plex (www.plexsquared.com) XBox Media Center (xboxmediacenter.com) is now just XBMC (xbmc.org) Team-XBMC (xbmc.org) will continue developing XBMC for all platforms XBMC for Linux XBMC for Mac XBMC for Windows XBMC for Xbox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBMC - Gamester17 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:56:20 +0100