[Am-info] Windows Media Player on BBC - Comments requested

[Eric M. Hopper]

On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 10:08:47PM -0800, Mitch Stone wrote:
> >Feel free to send in comments about the BBC helping to support Microsoft 
> >proprietary standards and effectively advertising Windows XP.
> >
> >Lets try and keep the Internet based on open standards without helping
> >Microsoft carve out yet another monopoly.
> 
> What form of nonproprietary form of streaming media should we be 
> suggesting as an alternative?

	AFAIK, there aren't any good, Free streaming media formats.  Ogg
Tarkin will be someday, but that won't be for another 2-3 years.  In the
meantime, the streaming media vendor that is the most platform neutral
is Real.  I don't like them though because they tend to be spyware.

Have fun (if at all possible),
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