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From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To: "j mckitrick" <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>,
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Subject: RE: multimedia formats
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 01:15:32 -0700
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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



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