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Microsoft settles with RealNetworks for $761 million
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| 10/11/2005
Posted on 10/11/2005 12:36:23 PM PDT by Panerai
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posted on
10/11/2005 12:36:30 PM PDT
by
Panerai
To: Panerai
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posted on
10/11/2005 12:40:46 PM PDT
by
Mr_Moonlight
(And the time will come when you see we're all one, and life flows on within you and without you)
To: Mr_Moonlight
I'm not a big MS fan, but it sure looks like they are being hosed by RealNetworks.
So if I own the carwash down the street, but a local gas station is giving free carwashes at their station with a fillup, can I sue them because they are unfairly bundling their carwash with a tank of gas?
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posted on
10/11/2005 12:47:02 PM PDT
by
jaydubya
To: Mr_Moonlight
I'm not a big MS fan, but it sure looks like they are being hosed by RealNetworks.
So if I own the carwash down the street, but a local gas station is giving free carwashes at their station with a fillup, can I sue them because they are unfairly bundling their carwash with a tank of gas?
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posted on
10/11/2005 12:47:21 PM PDT
by
jaydubya
To: Panerai
The RealOne Player is practically nothing more than a corporate approved carrier of adware/spyware.
Use it at your own risk!
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posted on
10/11/2005 12:52:07 PM PDT
by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: jaydubya
If they had been legally declared a monopoly, then yes, you very well might be able to. The law in such things is weird.
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posted on
10/11/2005 12:54:03 PM PDT
by
zeugma
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To: rdb3; chance33_98; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Bush2000; PenguinWry; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; ...
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posted on
10/11/2005 12:55:14 PM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: jaydubya
Well since MS has over $40,000,000,000 in cash reservees a $761,000,000 payout is probabley just a day's worth of interest.
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posted on
10/11/2005 12:55:40 PM PDT
by
baltoga
To: zeugma
If MS would just give their product away for free then there wouldn't be an issue.
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posted on
10/11/2005 1:10:06 PM PDT
by
jaydubya
To: baltoga
Maybe, but it's money that Real didn't earn and doesn't deserve. Their product has had limited success because it offers limited benefit over competitive products.
This is just another example of our legal system being abused by people to take money from those who have earned it and redistribute it to others after the lawyers get a huge chunk of it.
Every time crap like this happens, it's we the consumers that get screwed.
To: Incorrigible
I agree with Incorrigible, RealOne Player sucks and is nothing more then adware/spyware!!!
To: Dr Stormfist; Incorrigible
I agree with Incorrigible, RealOne Player sucks and is nothing more then adware/spyware!!! Yup--that's why I don't use it. Of couse, I don't use Media Player either--or any other MS product.
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posted on
10/11/2005 1:26:10 PM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
To: Incorrigible
I agree. I got disgusted with the spyware and adware Real Player dumped into my pc. I deleted it a long time ago.
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posted on
10/11/2005 1:41:56 PM PDT
by
WasDougsLamb
(Just my opinion.Go easy on me........)
To: jaydubya
If MS would just give their product away for free then there wouldn't be an issue.Actually, I believe that it was an issue of them giving away their product for free (IE) that was the issue in their lawsuit with Netscape. They only do that when they want to drive another company out of business that is trying to sell a product.
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posted on
10/11/2005 1:45:12 PM PDT
by
zeugma
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To: WasDougsLamb
I deleted it a long time ago. Careful viewing video on websites that promote the Real Player format. Real finds a way to get back on your system and into your startup options. I use the free ZoneAlarm (http://www.ZoneLabs.com) firewall to keep it from phoning home and delete it (again!) when Zone alerts me that it came back.
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posted on
10/11/2005 1:46:41 PM PDT
by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: zeugma
They only do that when they want to drive another company out of business that is trying to sell a product. Just like Open Source!
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posted on
10/11/2005 1:48:04 PM PDT
by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: jaydubya
Close. If one company owned ALL the gas stations in town and they gave away car washes for free, then you would have an anti-trust case. :)
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posted on
10/11/2005 1:49:28 PM PDT
by
Daus
To: Incorrigible
"The RealOne Player is practically nothing more than a corporate approved carrier of adware/spyware."
Yep. Stay away!
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posted on
10/11/2005 2:39:59 PM PDT
by
L98Fiero
To: Incorrigible
Just like Open Source!But at least with open source, you don't get spyware worms and trojans thrown in as well!
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posted on
10/11/2005 2:53:56 PM PDT
by
zeugma
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