Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1210 mails)

[Wolfgang Woehl <tito@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Marcus Meissner:

> They did talk to each other. I do not know the contract, or the
> real result, but was told to me is that it would cost us per-copy
> royalties.
>
> So the decision was made not to ship it.

Do I understand you right that if Real would have been less greedy 
opensuse would have happily kept on shipping this piece of last-
century/phone-home/let's-squeeze-some-ads-in-there crap and 
associating .mp3 and .ogg and what-not to it?

So that when Real realizes that their legal department sucks even more 
than their software and therefore reconfigures its business model 
opensuse will jump back on board?

Ok, so the default realplayer conf has the phone-home stuff off. Big 
Thank You.

Ouch. So big a bad Ouch like she never been ouched before.

When I saw RealPlayer pop up as the default opensuse11 player the 
first time around I gave my cup of tea a hard suspicious stare. Then I 
called my anger management person and she cheered me up by saying 
"You've got to let go", and, whispering, "Can you help me with this 
windows-pedia-slayer3000 update here?"

When I woke up I saw a light. It had a nice voice, too. It said "... 
RealPlayer66beta6 installation requires your attention. We will now 
guide you through the process of evaluating your media-consumption 
competence, funds and security upgrades compliance history. Make sure 
to wear your RealWristband at all times for unprecedented and 
interminable media pleasure ..."

It felt right to click "I accept. Thank you." The other options were 
"Wow. Yes." and "I'm not sure, what would you do?" But those were kind 
of hard to reach underneath that transparent RealDesktop which pretty 
much lets me do anything anyway. Worries are over and that's what we 
all want, right?

Wolfgang
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