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Ask RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser
RealNetworks has always been more Linux-friendly than other streaming media purveyors, and is now moving closer to the open source camp with its Helix Community effort. More recently, Real has made a big media splash by selling downloadable tunes in an iPod-compatible format. Does any of this matter, considering that world + dog seems to be jumping on the downloadable multimedia bandwagon? Can Real once again become "the" streaming media leader? Will Real's 49 cent "limited time only" song download price force other music download vendors to cut their prices? We have no idea, but hopefully Rob Glaser does. He's promised to answer your questions personally (rather than have PR people speak for him). So ask whatever you like. We'll forward 10 of the highest-moderated questions to him by email and post his answers soon after he gets them back to us.
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RealNetworks is evil. There's a reason my company completely blocked real.com
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4. Do you think her being a rabid right-wing Republican makes her more attractive or less attractive?
5. When do you think she'll show us those fine titties on her webcam?
Or is the parent a troll ???
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just buy a mac
So what? Real pulled a fast one on Apple. Ha ha ha.
Real offers the world an alternate source for music to play on iPodz and the fanatics go ballistic. The astro-turfers arise zombie like from their apple discussion boards and attack other sites chanting "Steve is God".
Real has no incentive to port to Apple: Apple heads worship Apple products and even if it was a better product, Applists would boycott it. A better is "will they strive to keep support for Linux up to date?"
"How do you sleep at night?"
My guess is that he sold his nuts to venture capitalists, and when they threatened him with a ball peen hammer, he caved.
Oh no, I suppose the "Oh mighty Glaser" can't be bothered to answer those. I've turned off everything in the software, and yet on startup I still see a "realsched.exe" program running. I don't want that. Where do I turn that off?
Reading your comments, I can see why I NEVER use Real Player. Microsoft's Media player is a better alternative.
Why not, instead of Trolling here, go and fix your lame ass program?
It's either on the beat or off the beat, it's that easy.
I moderate therefore I rule!
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Oh yeah, and Quicktime streams never freeze due to network congestion, huh? Every time I've been watching QT movie trailers the first thing to do when the QT Player opens is to hit pause, as the software is so damn stupid that it practically never downloads a buffer long enough for uninterrupted playback before it starts to play it all by itself.
I hate Real's customer-harrassing policies as much as anyone -- they still require you to register for the download of RP10 for Win32 or OS X for example -- but these endless redundant buffering "jokes" are already started to feel more like trolls. IMHO, RP often streams much better than competitors.
“Wait for Hurd if you want something real” –Linus
Look you f---ing moron, that link only changes things for the 0.05% of the computer-using community that reads slashdot, not all the friends of slashdot readers who ultimately come crying to slashdot readers when they're system is all fu'd due to spyware. DO YOU GET IT NOW? YOUR F---ING LINK IS LIKE A DROP OF SPIT IN THE OCEAN.
Wow, so much hostility here. I'd be surprised if Mr. Glaser didn't simply decline the interview entirely at this point. This is an opportunity to get some real answers out of someone who's in a position to answer them, and all I'm seeing here is a bunch of stark raving lunatics. Here at Slashdot it's cool to hate Real and therefore you're all acting like a bunch of children.
The whole lot of you really need to grow up. It's exactly this kind of behavior that leads folks like Mr. Glaser to avoid taking you seriously.
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