Re: Rob Glaser's note about realnetwork problems

[stevic@ibm.net]

In <l03110700b1e29d932e97@[209.150.224.58]>, on 07/27/98 
   at 04:16 PM, "Eric M. Bennett" <ericb@pobox.com> said:

>Bill Forrest wrote:

>>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.

>That's true, but we still ought to hear Microsoft out fairly.  Why? 
>Well...

>I haven't looked at the details surrounding what does or does not happen
>with various versions of Real Player.  However, I am sure that at some
>point a company is going to try to jump on the MS-bashing bandwagon with
>some very dubious if not clearly false claims; Microsoft is not the only
>dishonest company out there.  When that happens, I'm going to have to
>defend Microsoft.  Like you, I won't feel the least bit sorry for them,
>but I'll still have to defend them.

It is certainly true that some companies will bash Microsoft for no good
reason, but I doubt very much if they will do that in front of a senate
panel knowing that the press will be there to report their every word. 

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