Re: Rob Glaser's note about realnetwork problems

[Ben Drasin <drasin@mindspring.com>]

I gotta say, I think RealNetworks is in the wrong here.  The fact that
the issue Glasser demonstrated did not occur with the 5.0 version of
RealPlayer but did with the G2 beta is particularly telling to me;
RealNetworks ought to have known this and been able to remidy the
situation by comparing differences in the two products.  The use of
instillation scripts to make a company's product the default player for
files which may currently be used primarily by another _is_ a legitimate
issue, but it seems Microsoft is not disabling RealPlayer in the way
alleged by RealNetworks.

bye-Ben

James Love wrote:

> This is the RealNetwork page on their dispute with MS.
>
> http://www.real.com/corporate/rn723/wmp.html
>
> This was MS's press release on the issue.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/7-23realprfin.htm
>
> jl
>
> --
> James Love
> Consumer Project on Technology
> P.O. Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036
> love@cptech.org, http://www.cptech.org
> 202.387.8030, fax 202.234.5176



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