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Offline drka

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Microsoft Pays Real
« on: October 12, 2005, 10:14:44 pm »
lmfao

http://www.torrentspy.com/article.asp?id=3743

i for one will NEVER EVER use Real Player. i dont care if they suck my dick to make me do it

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Re: Microsoft Pays Real
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2005, 10:25:48 pm »
Who cares about WMP vs RealPlayer, they both are horrible. RealAlternative and BSPlayer for life. Plus:

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Real alleged that Microsoft abused its position by bundling Windows Media Player with every PC on the planet.

Hrm.. didn't know WMP worked on Linux. Linux is a PC? And since when does WMP have a PowerPC version out? Hrmm, no dice.

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Re: Microsoft Pays Real
« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2005, 10:40:59 pm »
Who cares? It's their fucking product.

I think I'm going to sue Microsoft for making an operating system where the system folder directories are based on the backslash ('\') versus the standard forward slash ('/').

Who's with me?
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I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

That analogy doesn't even make sense.  Why would a water balloon be especially bloated on a hot summer's day? For your sake, I hope there wasn't too much logic testing on your LSAT. 

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Re: Microsoft Pays Real
« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2005, 11:22:30 pm »
it's their product. they can do whatever they want to do with it

@Quik:Media Player Classic > BSPlayer

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Re: Microsoft Pays Real
« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2005, 11:27:07 pm »
@Quik:Media Player Classic > BSPlayer

Five days later when your using BSPlayer, you won't have that opinion anymore. ::)
And like a fool I believed myself, and thought I was somebody else...

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Re: Microsoft Pays Real
« Reply #5 on: October 13, 2005, 05:25:06 am »
@Quik:Media Player Classic > BSPlayer

Five days later when your using BSPlayer, you won't have that opinion anymore. ::)

VLC Media Player.

You can play fucking text files.

It's a win.

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Re: Microsoft Pays Real
« Reply #6 on: October 13, 2005, 09:26:10 am »
I still like my mplayer. :)

This is pretty much the same issue as the anti-virus companies in another thread.  Microsoft driving down other companies. 

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Re: Microsoft Pays Real
« Reply #7 on: October 13, 2005, 09:26:39 am »
Who cares? It's their fucking product.
Do you know why there are laws like this? To prevent companies from becoming such a huge monopoly and basically take over the market.
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Re: Microsoft Pays Real
« Reply #8 on: October 13, 2005, 09:36:02 am »
@Quik:Media Player Classic > BSPlayer

Five days later when your using BSPlayer, you won't have that opinion anymore. ::)

VLC Media Player.

You can play fucking text files.

It's a win.
A media player that plays text files, so wrong, and yet so insecure sounding.

Who cares? It's their fucking product.
Do you know why there are laws like this? To prevent companies from becoming such a huge monopoly and basically take over the market.
Still their product, if they don't like it they download WinAmp or something of the sort, you get a lot of shit programs with Mac as well, but you're not bitching at them because they're not as big? Don't bitch at Microsoft then simply because they're more popular.

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It's one of those glorious Microsoft tricks - do what is necessary to win the market, then just pay whatever compensation afterwards. The marketshare, in this case almost total, is worth far more than a poxy few million dollars.
Like I said before, EVERY company does it, Microsoft is just bigger and more known, don't bitch at them because they're the only one you know about who's doing it.

Btw Mangix, don't get your facts from a torrent site.

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Re: Microsoft Pays Real
« Reply #9 on: October 13, 2005, 09:39:02 am »
Who cares? It's their fucking product.
Do you know why there are laws like this? To prevent companies from becoming such a huge monopoly and basically take over the market.
Still their product, if they don't like it they download WinAmp or something of the sort, you get a lot of shit programs with Mac as well, but you're not bitching at them because they're not as big? Don't bitch at Microsoft then simply because they're more popular.
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Microsoft being popular makes a world of a difference. Sure, they didn't do anything wrong, but when you get that popular and other products such as Real are getting less and less popular, somebody needs to step in to make sure that Microsoft doesn't get that monopoly and overcharge.
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Re: Microsoft Pays Real
« Reply #10 on: October 13, 2005, 10:41:17 am »
I personally think they were foolish to fork out the money, but that's just me.

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Re: Microsoft Pays Real
« Reply #11 on: October 13, 2005, 03:46:17 pm »
Who cares? It's their fucking product.
Do you know why there are laws like this? To prevent companies from becoming such a huge monopoly and basically take over the market.
Still their product, if they don't like it they download WinAmp or something of the sort, you get a lot of shit programs with Mac as well, but you're not bitching at them because they're not as big? Don't bitch at Microsoft then simply because they're more popular.
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Microsoft being popular makes a world of a difference. Sure, they didn't do anything wrong, but when you get that popular and other products such as Real are getting less and less popular, somebody needs to step in to make sure that Microsoft doesn't get that monopoly and overcharge.
Find a law that says a business can't be good and use their own sofware on their own product and I'll even bother arguing this with you.

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Re: Microsoft Pays Real
« Reply #12 on: October 13, 2005, 05:25:07 pm »
If they were forced to pay Real because of this, it's obviously a law. If it wasn't a law, Microsoft wouldn't of payed. I also really don't care about proving anything to you.
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Re: Microsoft Pays Real
« Reply #13 on: October 13, 2005, 05:29:23 pm »
If they were forced to pay Real because of this, it's obviously a law. If it wasn't a law, Microsoft wouldn't of payed. I also really don't care about proving anything to you.

You would be surprised at the number of times Microsoft paid somebody so they didn't take them to court and waste their time and expenses for lawyers... :P

It's their product. There are alternatives. One company is not going to turn Microsoft into a monopoly. If there is one working alternative, they are not a monopoly.
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[17:33:02] <xar> me and newby rule all

I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

That analogy doesn't even make sense.  Why would a water balloon be especially bloated on a hot summer's day? For your sake, I hope there wasn't too much logic testing on your LSAT. 

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Re: Microsoft Pays Real
« Reply #14 on: October 13, 2005, 05:33:14 pm »
Scr33n0r, I love you. I can't count how many times you've said..
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Find [...] and I'll even bother arguing this with you.

Yeah, its stuff like this that makes me glad that I have no part in anything Microsoft related.
I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.