Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 01:15:32 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "j mckitrick" <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: multimedia formats Message-ID: <001d01c10205$ff884fe0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010630195629.A86721@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of j mckitrick >Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 11:56 AM >To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: multimedia formats > > > >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. > Hmmm.. wasn't it because you could operate the WMP with one hand? :-() [I'll probably regret going there, but I couldn't resist, sorry!] Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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