Re: [tlug] BBC Radio embedded RealPlayer?

[Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com>]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 01:17:25PM +0200, Godwin Stewart wrote:

>Why does the BBC embrace evil proprietary standards from professional
>spammers like RealNetworks (http://tinyurl.com/j1h2) rather than something
>like Ogg-Vorbis

IIRC they had been using Ogg in part, and fairly recently, too.
They may have dropped it, however.

Remaining firmly OT, I used to know a former Real Networks Japan salesman,
and he told me that it wasn't a terribly pleasant place to work.
Somehow, I wasn't at all surprised to hear that.

Jonathan
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