Re: Is WebTV a puppet in the standards war?

[Case Roole <cjr@xs4all.nl>]

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> 
> On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Eric M. Bennett wrote:
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> > A ZDNet article asks the question, "Is WebTV a puppet in the standards
> > war?"  Before being bought by Microsoft, WebTV had indicated an interest in
> > supporting Java and kept its support for Real Networks' streaming product
> > up to date.  Now it has no interest in Java and has announced it will not
> > support new technologies from Real.  More here:
> 
> No real audio, no java. Hmm, let's make an unattractive product even more
> unattractive. No thanks.

I didn't connect it yesterday, but in Tevanian's testimony we find Avid
Technologies mentioned as one of the companies that was pressured by
Microsoft to stop QuickTime support. Now we have learned that Microsoft
actually partly owns Avid. There is a pattern to all those Microsoft
owned companies dropping open standards.

-cjr