Real Networks Goes Open Source

[Rich Caloggero]

Well, if the same server can serve 55 different flavors of the same thing,
then winamp, freeamp, and other free players , on both Windows and Linux,
can probably play a few of them!

                    Rich

----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Howell" <aaron at kitten.net.au>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: Real Networks Goes Open Source


> Its clever actually, and the reverse of the traditional microsoft
approach.
> Make the server free, and make it damn near impossible to get a free
player.
> You can still get real one player for free, but you're now required to
sign up for a real one passport (even if you never activate it)
> and you get bombarded with advertising and junk (has anyone figured under
windows how you get rid of message center once and for all short of going in
and nuking the associated dll?)
> Eventually Real will bite the bullet and charge everyone for the player
which is probably how they intend to recover the cost of making their server
software opensource.
> one thing Microsoft has always had going for it though is that media
player is a heck of a lot more accessible than real, especially in their
latest versions.
> Regards
> Aaron
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 05:24:55PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Charles Crawford wrote:
> >
> > > Well now this is interesting.  I wonder how it relates to Vorbis?
> >
> > It doesn't relate directly. My expectation, however, is that they'll add
> > ogg support at some time in the near future, as they now have no reason
> > not to support it.
> >  >
> > > -- Charlie Crawford.
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