[rescue] my NPR interview is up!

[Ken Hansen]

Real[au|vi]dio works just fine on an estimated 90%+ of all clients in the
world - that's not too bad.

If Real were to have "open" clients, they couldn't enforce their main
revenue source (for either them or their clients), the advertising. It makes
perfect sense as a *business model* - remember, their goal is not to serve
multimedia to *all* possible clients, their goal is to make a profit.

Ken
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg A. Woods" <woods at weird.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 1:36 AM
Subject: Re: [rescue] my NPR interview is up!


<snip>
> It's all really stupid though.  The idiots at real.com should have kept
> only one side or the other proprietary, depending on their guess as to
> where the best market was.  The current state of having a proprietary,
> but free, client is just plain nuts -- it benefits no one, not even
> real.com, especially when this means they must, economically, ignore so
> many segments of the market (eg. non-Linux workstations, NAS, etc.).



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