🚀 go-pugleaf

because that's what marketing people do?
sorry, couldn't resist.

Andy McConnell wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Chris Rapier wrote:
>
> >This does not mean that I feel MBONE technology is a waste or stupid or
> >useless only that it is not a serious competitor in most markets. If someone
> >is planning on charging for MBONE services *and* expects to make any profit
> >off of it they better have a good way to convince people to install vic and
> >vat or other multicast aware software (eg. get microsoft or real networks to
> >include support for it in their next version of their network media foo (or in
> >the channels or whatever)).
>
> M$'s Windows Media Player has support for Multicasting.  IN the default
> setup, there's support for Streaming Real Video and Windows Media.. Both
> default to Multicasting as the option of choice if available.  So, it its
> there.
>
> Hearing this discussion, it reminds me of another reason NOT to charge for
> it - reduced backbone bandwidth.  Why discourage your customers from using
> a higher-quality service that costs you LESS b/w to provide ?
>
> $.02
>
> -Andy
>
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