Wolfgang Woehl wrote:
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
I banned Real from my system, way back when, when I saw what it did to and with my windows 98se system. Regards Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org