Re: Rob Glaser's note about realnetwork problems

[Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>]

Ben:

Problems DO occur with the 5.0 RealPlayer. So, Microsoft's excuse that
G2 is in beta is hogwash, er, I mean, disingenuous. Real Networks used
their G2 software in the demo because they didn't want to show a product
that was already becoming obsolete.

--Brett

At 10:42 AM 7/27/98 -0400, Ben Drasin wrote:
 
>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