From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Jun 30 11:56:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FA5237B406 for ; Sat, 30 Jun 2001 11:56:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] ident=root) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #7) id 15GPuw-0008Tc-00 for freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2001 19:56:30 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f5UIuTe86819 for freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2001 19:56:29 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 19:56:29 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: multimedia formats Message-ID: <20010630195629.A86721@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ted is right. Multimedia would have gone nowhere if it hadn't been for porn. Apparently, there was quite a scuffle when Quicktime and Windows Media Formats were duking it out. IIRC, Quicktime was better, but WMP won because... um... oh, yeah, because it was already installed on the machine and easier to use. Some time ago, I also saw an article on how so many porn sites use FreeBSD because it is cheap and excels in performance on networks. Maybe wccdrom wasn't the busiest website after all. ;-) Jonathon -- Microsoft complaining about the source license used by Linux is like the event horizon calling the kettle black. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message