TiVo Needs To Better Support Open Source Community

This article about TiVo suggestions got me thinking about something. One section of the article mentions the TiVo Web Project and how TiVo has yet to implement several of the features available in this open source project. This very fact made me wonder; why doesn’t TiVo consider what’s being developed in open source community and either openly support the projects or roll some of the functionality into their own software? Another example of a great open source TiVo project is the JavaHMO server. Like the TiVo Web Project, JavaHMO has implemented several features that are not available in the “official” TiVo Desktop software. Why doesn’t TiVo embrace this project and mention it as an excellent alternative to their software? Wouldn’t it be smart for TiVo to support these different projects?