Today, I'm guessing he tells us how great AOL is.

I was around long before TiVo and I'm not sure what it says about me that the only thing of substance I know about it is that the GPL3 (GNU Public License v3) was largely referred to as the "anti-tivoization" license because it addressed loopholes being exploited in GPL2 by TiVo hardware manufacturers to use copy left software opaquely.