> Just imagine if in a couple of years from now, you can only download music > and video's in windows media format. Then you will not be able to play > those under linux. It is even more worrying if microsoft will succeed in > killing real-player for streaming audio and video. They are doing a big > attempt now by integrating their own streaming audio and video solution > into Windows XP and making usage of real-player very hard under XP. > If they continue like this, they will succeed killing real-player. > Just like they effectively killed netscape...
Pah. imho, realplayer sucks bigtime. Sure, it compresses quite nice and all, the image quality is nice so the base product is really great, but oh man, if you install it it tries to integrate with your system in every possible way, wants to install additional software, and crams your desktop and start menu full with icons and bonzybuddies and offercompanions and everything else you can think of... I really hate the realplayer setup, I'm always glad it's over with (I think 'dummies' will probably just click next next next and install all this crap) and since I've had bad experiences with realone (the new player) on another computer (I couldn't find a way to remove the residential part of the program at all) I am not upgrading my realplayer on this one. So that isn't exactly an examplorary piece of software either... And ah, netscape pretty much sucks, so also in that case it's just the better software which won. They were one of the first, and used to be popular, true, but well, if you want to stay no.1 then you must live up to it. There are so many people I know who rigidly supported netscape and used it all the time, but at some point IE was just way ahead of NS. By the way, netscape isn't a holy bean either, they started maiming the HTML standard after all. So hmm, bad example, Alex ^_^ (imho, ofcourse). Ah, but ofcourse I am all against all those money-oriented developments... I myself can see the future world (as depicted in star trek ^_^) in the internet... A lot of people do stuff for free. I hope someday everything will just be free. Musicians (certainly starting ones) for example already make music for fun, not for the money. It's the record companies who earn the big cash. A lot of programmers also program software for free (as a hobby). I think the basic principle is, you can download free software created by other people, and you *are* using it, so why do you think yourself better than them and dare ask money for your own??? ^_^ Ah, ok, sometimes people ask a little money for it, but that's just because they have to earn a living... ok, I can respect that. Aw, and erm... Patriek had a bad day I think ^_^... So forgive him... Out of personal experiences I must to some extent agree that still not all is pais and vree in MSX-land, although the 'bad days' are way behind of us now. ~Grauw PS. yes, I know this is barely MSX-related anymore... please don't make a fuzz out of it. -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
