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To: Pruguy who wrote (3395)	5/26/1999 9:05:00 AM
From: soup	Respond to of 5843

>You continue to show your lack of knowledge...< And you, your insecurities by (again) deprecating my motives and character rather than countering the argument. >There are well over a dozen streaming companies in the market today.< Yeah, and how many of them sign marketing deals with IBM? >Everyone knows rnwk market share will decline from their 85%, but no one has come close to threatening them in a serious way yet.< Who cares how much marketshare you've got if you can't leverage it into higher fees. IBM/7th Street evidently wanted to go with a proprietary means of streaming tech in order to a) prevent content re-distribution b) sell custom-configured IBM streaming hardware. To the extent this trend continues, RNWK is fighting a war on two fronts -- proprietary as well as open-sourced. >you continue to show your lack of knowledge...< I'm interested in the future of streaming media. (I just found out that I can get "red' in my area.) I post what I read on the internet. I post it here to get second (hopefully informed) opinions on these items. Isn't that was this is supposed to be about?