Comment missing the point - almost eveybody (Score 2, Informative) 605
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The REASON Europe is in such a snit about media player, is they realise that everybody will need
it to view streaming news/information. This will
become more and more popular, to the point where
that is where you watch all your news.
Think about it, what would the web be like if
microsoft (or any other corporation for that matter)
OWENED the standards?
If the streaming media is done to a published standard, this is not really a problem - but
we all know how microsoft deals with HTML
and tried to with JAVA. An awful lot of people write pages to suit IE at the expense of the standard- so if you ar'nt using it your fucked
not because other browsers are bad but because people HVE to have it work on IE first.
If the same thing happens with streaming
media- You will need to pay MS to see the news.
The soulution is to write a streaming standard
and implimentation and get government to ENFORCE
it. Ie you want to stream media? here are the tools
there're free, here's all the documentation - it's free, go wild. Oh BTW, you break this standard
and you and the CEO will be going to prison, not pay a fine, weasel in court for eight years but straight to"enlarge my asshole at your pleasure bubba" prison.
then it doesn't matter if Microsoft bundle it or
not the fact that realplayer and other companies
may or may not make money is irrelevant.
Cheers
Stephen
The REASON Europe is in such a snit about media player, is they realise that everybody will need
it to view streaming news/information. This will
become more and more popular, to the point where
that is where you watch all your news.
Think about it, what would the web be like if
microsoft (or any other corporation for that matter)
OWENED the standards?
If the streaming media is done to a published standard, this is not really a problem - but
we all know how microsoft deals with HTML
and tried to with JAVA. An awful lot of people write pages to suit IE at the expense of the standard- so if you ar'nt using it your fucked
not because other browsers are bad but because people HVE to have it work on IE first.
If the same thing happens with streaming
media- You will need to pay MS to see the news.
The soulution is to write a streaming standard
and implimentation and get government to ENFORCE
it. Ie you want to stream media? here are the tools
there're free, here's all the documentation - it's free, go wild. Oh BTW, you break this standard
and you and the CEO will be going to prison, not pay a fine, weasel in court for eight years but straight to"enlarge my asshole at your pleasure bubba" prison.
then it doesn't matter if Microsoft bundle it or
not the fact that realplayer and other companies
may or may not make money is irrelevant.
Cheers
Stephen
