History Of Boxee
As we’ve recounted in earlier instalments, XBMC took a long time to hit its full open source, multi-platform glory. But by 2008, not only had it successfully spread across multiple operating systems, it had also inspired a growing clan of daughter projects which took its code and swizzled it for extra effect.
(By the way, we know we’ve already run two instalments on the history of Boxee and have only just got to Boxee itself. But there’s nothing wrong with a little context, is there?)
XBMC has been the basis for numerous spin-off projects, including the well-regarded Plex for the Mac and the more recent XBMC4Xbox, which took over the task of producing an Xbox-specific version once it became clear that was a distraction from the central goals of the XBMC project. Boxee, though, has arguably become the most prominent, not least because it has actively sought to commercialise its products and license its code to hardware manufacturers.
