Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 15th Aug 2006 23:21 UTC
RealNetworks will release open-source software this year that will let Linux computers play Windows Media files legally. The media delivery software company and Novell made the announcement at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. Novell said it will include the tool in its Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 in the fourth quarter.
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RE: Yet More Strategically Bad Thinking
by Maners on Wed 16th Aug 2006 14:05
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It's already too late. When you get to any major website for movie/game trailers, all of them offer WMV because this comes with default Windows installation. This tendency is not going to change, since most corporations target the most common denminator in the user base which is WMV. It's is same like with IE - a website that doesn't render correcltly in Firefox/Opera is acceptable, but opposite is a no go. The only hope is in governments that would force MS not to include their 'standards' in the most popular OS in the world, and only after that 3rd party vendors will target the best product/format instead of what comes with Windows by default.
RE[2]: Yet More Strategically Bad Thinking
by smittal on Wed 16th Aug 2006 20:29
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Windows Media is not exactly a format that has swept the internet, and Novell and Real want to help Microsoft's share? Oh dear.