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To: John A. Stoops who wrote (59310)	7/2/2001 3:07:07 AM
From: Dinesh	Read Replies (1) of 74651

It would seem that the arrogance claims could just as well be extended to PAUL KRUGMAN and NYT too. First the factual errors: RealPlayer is not from AOL. It's from Real Networks, Inc. It would be interesting to see if Real would make it's data formats public - so that anyone (Microsoft incl) could build applications around them. Perhaps it already does that and I haven't been too busy with my daily grind to notice. But if not, and that's what I think is the case, Paul would be missing one of his legs - that the Microsfot Media Sniffer could have also accomodated music encoded the Real way. Therefore his argument is ridiculous. If he is a thinking man he should have known it. If not, why is NYT letting him write? One or the other is being arrogant. Furthermore, the same logic can be extended to Real Network. Why do we need this new format when Quicktime can do all that and more? Gee, may be they want to have a monopoly. I agree that being forced to upgrade to XP in order to use the WMF player is ridiculous. I however can also see why this hurdle is being thrown our (consumers') way - thanks to this lawsuit. Microsoft could not sell this as a separate product AND bundle it with the basic product at the same time. Now, who's to blame? Your friendly lawyer? Think carefully. regards -D

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