I didn't even upgrade to real 1. i still use 7.0. Anyways any time taken to upgrade is time waisted since I never use realplayer. Maybe now that there server is opensource I could take a look at it. ------------------------------- Alex Snow Email: alex_snow at gmx.net BBS: telnet://bbs1.dyndns.org web: http://web.alex-snow.dhs.org The Computer Repair Guy: If It Ain't Broke, I'll mess With It Till It Is! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Howell" <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > -- > > > > Janina Sajka, Director > > Technology Research and Development > > Governmental Relations Group > > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > > http://www.openebook.org > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > +----------------------------------------------------------+ > / |\ _,,,---,,_ /| > / /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ / | > / |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' / | > / '---''(_/--' `-'\_) / | > +----------------------------------------------------------+ | > | Aaron Howell Kitten Internet | | > | aaron at kitten.net.au Internet consultancy, | | > | Phone: +61-417-625550 System administration, | | > | fax: +61-7-36010099 system design/integration. | | > | icq: 6715521 http://www.kitten.net.au | | > | | | > | | + > | | / > | | / > | | / > | |/ > +----------------------------------------------------------+ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
