Real Networks Goes Open Source

[Alex Snow]

Yeah I'd like to take a look at this server when it comes out.  Any idea if
it'll run on linux?
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Caloggero" <rjc at MIT.EDU>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: Real Networks Goes Open Source


> 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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