Re: Rob Glaser's note about realnetwork problems

[Billy Forrest <billyf@earthlink.net>]

I personally don't feel for Microsoft at all.  They've put themselves in a
position to scrutinized and critisized at every turn.  RealNetworks must
feel at least threatened by them to speak out against them.  History has
shown that they have every right to feel threatened.

Bill Forrest
Telecommunications Tech.



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
>
> 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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