- #Silverlight updates for mac mp4
- #Silverlight updates for mac software
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You can in fact get a whole free (as in freedom) media player for Windows. You can in fact get an ogg vorbis codec for Windows.
#Silverlight updates for mac software
If you read that message casually, you might be lead to believe that Windows software actually couldn’t support that format, rather than the actual truth, which is that Microsoft doesn’t want you to use it (lest you become less tied to Windows).
What actually happens if you try to play an ogg vorbis file on a default-install Windows system is that Windows doesn’t even try to get a codec (as it does for other formats) but rather it shows a message that ogg vorbis isn’t supported. People would be absolutely fine with royalty free ogg vorbis if they thought their system had it. I’d love to see Vorbis/Ogg but the reality is people love their proprietary formats, even if it yields no real benefit above the free alternatives. Which would still require royalty payments. Just because a few would rather kick dust in the corner than facing the reality that Microsoft is the big kid on the block, doesn’t mean that we should all suffer because of it. With that being said, however, if Novell use their brain they would integrate RealPlayer into Silvelight for mono so that it can access a wide variety of CODECs (2.0 of RealPlayer will support WMV/WMA on *NIX) without needing to pay royalties (that is taken care of my Real).ītw, there is nothing stopping Red Hat or anyone else for that matter to sign up for a patent sharing agreement. This way they’ll manage to achieve broader adoption of Silverlight, while actually preventing its use by most of Linux distributions, preventing adoption of Mono by other OSes, splitting the communinty, and spreading more FUD all over.ĭoubtful – the big cruncher will be WMA/WMV support – without it Silverlight is pretty much castrated in terms of functionality. My guess is that Microsoft is likely to make pulic statements which will make Silverlight de-facto illegal on every Linux distribution that doesn’t come from those who signed the deals (Novell). I’m sick of fighting MS but hey - there aren’t many others to fight… I’d rather fight a couple of small companies than fight a Goliath, and yet there can still be people lamenting over that stupid Goliath. I’m missing things here, esp the other important examples but those above are all done at the same time frame and yet, other than ICQ, the others practically lost.
#Silverlight updates for mac mp4
WMV and WMA dominates even the porn arena! Not to mention the standard mpg mp4 yadayada Real is limping with the little who still know them while quicktime is also practically used with high-end and mac users. NET and MSN is still working on swallowing the entire young generation of ICQ/alternative users. Visual Basic’s development practically stalled since the change to. Well, lets see what happened to them: Sun nearly went out of relevance if it weren’t so powerful in the network arena, Netscape just went bust, bought off by AOL and is still doing badly. I don’t think we’ll see that happening, MS needs all the help they can get to take on Java, Netscape, Visual Basic, ICQ and Real/QT all at one go…
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