-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Friday 02 January 2004 4:25 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: <whack> > Just a guess mind you, but I suspect that the reason that you and a lot of > other people are having problems with the Linux RealPlayer and streaming > media is related to issues with the lack of DRM schemes under Linux. A lot > of the current streaming media stuff only works with RealOnePlayer, not the > older Realplayer that is available for Linux. > > Eventually companies like Real, rapidly being shut out of the proprietary > software market because of MS are going to have to figure out a business > model to make money with open source, including opening up their software > source. Personally, I think that advertising embedded in the media is the > way to go, but as always, it will take them a bit to figure it out.
Then there are people such as myself that run the adblock extension in Mozilla based browsers and filter out all the ads anyway. Hard to make a living in advertising from people like me, isn't it? Ad Agents may actually have to find "honest work." Probably about the time producers of "Reality Based Programming" do. <eg> Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk 16:39:59 up 13 days, 2:29, 1 user, load average: 0.18, 0.17, 0.13 Help! I'm trapped in a Chinese computer factory! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/9gI3ZqvqlrLPr5YRAlmYAJ9aSg7SdB4SMPK6GmUEo52ePIdi4ACbB0AK N3bgK8r6jJS9O9j4S7HlaLM= =9ikl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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