---- Original Message ---- From: "John Handelaar" <john at gn.apc.org> To: <thechat at lists.evolt.org> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 7:04 PM Subject: [thechat] OMFG > RealNetworks to open-source new client, server > apps which can read/serve Windows Media content > > http://netscape.com.com/2100-1104-945418.html cf http://www.realnetworks.com/info/helix/ http://www.helixcommunity.org/ 1st January 2003 is gonna be a fun day > If true, resembles a rumble I've been hearing > for about 2 years: Real are haemorraging server > sales to Microsoft, but have a very lucrative > client-based content subscription programme which > they *really* need to protect. oh totally, but how many people actually *sign up* and *keep paying* for realone passes ... -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _________ "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ for Sega." -- Brodie, 'Mallrats' =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ @ well.com :: William Anderson U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! http://neuro.me.uk/