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Darwin Streaming Server Beats Real, Windows Media

Posted by pudge on from the apple-qa-people-are-superior dept.

pinqkandi writes "Network Computing recently ran an extensive shootout of video streaming servers, in areas from setup to quality to buffering times. The free, open source Darwin Streaming Server, which streams QuickTime content, edged out costly and closed source Windows Media & RealVideo streaming systems." Well, it edged out Real. It blew Microsoft away.

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  1. Re:Hmm... Too bad Quicktime isn't open source. by analog_line · · Score: 2, Troll

    What $30 for the ability to author content is too much for you to spare?

    Talk about cheap, I mean really. They _give_ you the server, and have the unmitigated gall to ask you to pay less than one dinner for two at a nice restaurant for the software that lets you author media for it. I'm certainly glad most open source advocates aren't the cheap bastards you appear to be. Well, at least I hope I'm wrong.

  2. Re:No surprises then by asv108 · · Score: 2, Troll
    There is not ONE Microsoft product which can beat an equivalent Open Source product. Not ONE.

    I don't want to spoil the open source pep rally here but there is ONE MS product that beats the equivalent OSS product, MS Office.