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Will Real feast where Apple failed? | |
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| Time: 07:18 EST/12:18 GMT | News Source: CNET | Posted By: Todd Richardson | ||
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As RealNetworks turns to open source in its battle for the streaming media market, it faces a foe as formidable as Microsoft: history. Many have compared RealNetworks and its establishment last week of the Helix open-source initiative to Netscape Communications, which in 1998 was the first significant software company to put its proprietary product into open-source development, only to languish. But among the three major streaming media competitors, Apple Computer was the first to make the leap to open source--a move that also offers something of a cautionary tale for the curative powers of such efforts. In April 1999, a month after it established the Darwin open-source organization that would give birth to its OS X operating system, Apple revealed the source code to parts of the QuickTime streaming format and invited developers and companies to use and disseminate it. | ||
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| #1 By 20 (24.243.41.64) at 7/30/2002 11:48:21 AM |
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In addition to their open-sourcing their media player, Real will be announcing the Spyware SDK for application developers wishing to embed spyware into their apps in a uniform, standards-based manner.
They will be presenting the Common Reference API for Programming Spyware (CRAPS) to the ECMA next week and release a reference implementation to the community. |
| #2 By 7826 (65.205.133.2) at 7/30/2002 2:11:05 PM |
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RealOne Player = SuperSpyWare! End of the story. Anyone don't see that deserved to get bombarded with ads and virus.
Everytime I used the Real Player, I have to close a few processes it leaves behind to spy on me and delete the registry entry that automatically laungh those thing at startup. |
| #3 By 20 (24.243.41.64) at 7/30/2002 3:44:38 PM |
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m00zilla said:
I coodnt give a rats spinkter about the UI...[sic] How many rat's sphincters do you have? |
| #4 By 1845 (12.254.240.104) at 7/31/2002 3:53:44 AM |
| Too bulky? Just use the classic skin then. Or do you mean memory footprint? |
| #5 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 7/31/2002 4:18:58 PM |
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I'll say this... For streaming video content I still prefer Real. Well quicktime is nice because they end up buffering to your IE directory and you can go swipe the file...
But I have problems with Media player sometimes not streaming. I don't know why, but it'll get all jerky and do like 1 frame per second. Then I do the real link from the same website and it's smooth. Not all the time, and it's not consistent, just annoying. |
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