[rescue] my NPR interview is up!

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 01:36:57AM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
>
> 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.).

When Real.com started up, Rob Glaser himself promised that they would make
their audio an open format.  I remember reading about it in Wired, back when
Wired was still a good magazine.

Bastiges.  Now Microsoft is going to kill them; if they had gone to some
kind of open format Microsoft would have had a harder time of it.

./patrick