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Date:      Sat, 30 Jun 2001 19:56:29 +0100
From:      j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
To:        freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
Subject:   multimedia formats
Message-ID:  <20010630195629.A86721@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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Ted is right.  Multimedia would have gone nowhere if it hadn't been for
porn.  Apparently, there was quite a scuffle when Quicktime and Windows
Media Formats were duking it out.  IIRC, Quicktime was better, but WMP won
because... um... oh, yeah, because it was already installed on the machine
and easier to use.

Some time ago, I also saw an article on how so many porn sites use FreeBSD
because it is cheap and excels in performance on networks.  Maybe wccdrom
wasn't the busiest website after all.  ;-)

Jonathon
--
Microsoft complaining about the source license used by 
Linux is like the event horizon calling the kettle black.

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