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Date:      Wed, 17 Nov 1999 11:45:03 +0100
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>
To:        Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Cc:        emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RealPlayer G2 for Linux: Initial Report
Message-ID:  <3832872F.5F47F077@scc.nl>
References:  <199911171008.CAA73167@rah.star-gate.com>

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Amancio Hasty wrote:
> >
> > That's not needed, because there's nothing wrong with RP G2 in this
> > respect.
> 
> Besides at least one of the FreeBSD multimedia folks went over to
> Real Networks long time ago : Sujal Patel to head their Server
> development and Real Audio stuff was first developed on FreeBSD.

Cool! an infiltrant :-)

> What we do need is to swamp Real Networks with requests for
> a FreeBSD player. The Maketing Bean counters just simply
> add up all the requests or perceived need for a given platform and
> to decide to support a given platform.

Yes, that would be nice. It certainly helps to make FreeBSD noticed on
the desktop playground. Hmm, it makes me wonder what the outcome was of
the `design a FreeBSD desktop' contest Jordan organized...

Anyway, the more support for Linux, the better our changes eventually.
And, emulation is better than nothing :-)

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Marcel Moolenaar                        mailto:marcel@scc.nl
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