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philip · 12-22-2004, 03:37 PM

I think some of this is just bs. Like a desktop environment IMO contains all kinds of (more or less useful) applications. With a desktop system you should be able to do basic tasks, like surfing the internet, text editing, play media files, email.

And of course a commercial company is going to make its own applications and put them in. Of course it's a game between different companies. But does m$ have the complete media market under it? Nope, it can't play .ram, it doesn't play quicktime. Those programs are there for a reason. And well IMO WMP is superior. It looks better, it's not as annoying as quicktime in its behaviour (hey I thought I'd just deleted this quicktime key from my registry and within an hour it's back) and it's faster and has some options (like repeat) that realplayer doesn't have.

Realplayer and quicktime just don't have it to make it better than windows media player (in windows at least), it's just a different tool for a different job. Most people only have realplayer and quicktime for their proprietary file formats. Nothing more, nothing less. Both have the name to be not that good. Firefox on the other hand is such an example of a well thought-out program that can compete with m$.

But it seems that there are just too many people with no common sense in the EU to realise that.

Same thing with software patents. Who in their right mind thinks software patents are a good idea? Just like patents on genes. Common sense is hard to find in the European Commision. Just like the only thing they see is the economic picture :/ And the money flowing in of course (judging from the text "EU regulators" the money of the fines will go to the EU for some part isn't it?)

edit: Saying things a little more politically correct. Don't want any trouble by calling government names

[ 12-22-2004, 03:40 PM: Message edited by: philip ]

12-22-2004, 03:37 PM	#2
philip Galvatron Join Date: June 24, 2002 Location: aa Posts: 2,101	I think some of this is just bs. Like a desktop environment IMO contains all kinds of (more or less useful) applications. With a desktop system you should be able to do basic tasks, like surfing the internet, text editing, play media files, email. And of course a commercial company is going to make its own applications and put them in. Of course it's a game between different companies. But does m$ have the complete media market under it? Nope, it can't play .ram, it doesn't play quicktime. Those programs are there for a reason. And well IMO WMP is superior. It looks better, it's not as annoying as quicktime in its behaviour (hey I thought I'd just deleted this quicktime key from my registry and within an hour it's back) and it's faster and has some options (like repeat) that realplayer doesn't have. Realplayer and quicktime just don't have it to make it better than windows media player (in windows at least), it's just a different tool for a different job. Most people only have realplayer and quicktime for their proprietary file formats. Nothing more, nothing less. Both have the name to be not that good. Firefox on the other hand is such an example of a well thought-out program that can compete with m$. But it seems that there are just too many people with no common sense in the EU to realise that. Same thing with software patents. Who in their right mind thinks software patents are a good idea? Just like patents on genes. Common sense is hard to find in the European Commision. Just like the only thing they see is the economic picture :/ And the money flowing in of course (judging from the text "EU regulators" the money of the fines will go to the EU for some part isn't it?) edit: Saying things a little more politically correct. Don't want any trouble by calling government names [ 12-22-2004, 03:40 PM: Message edited by: philip ]