__/ [ Roy Schestowitz ] on Wednesday 07 February 2007 10:55 \__
> Wal-Mart to launch video downloads
>
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> | They won't work with Macintosh or Linux-based computers or with iPods.
> | The downloads can be backed up as many as three times, including to a
> | DVD, but the backup DVD won't play in a conventional DVD player.
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> http://www.wzzm13.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=70062
>
> They must have learned from the BBC, or taken Microsoft's advice. Didn't
> they buy a lot of Linux servers from Microsoft's 'support'/endorsement
> recently? And then spoke about patents, probably to just please the
> Microsoft exec behind the deal? He use to be an exec at Wal-mart. They also
> use a lot of Red Hat, which makes them hypocrites that can sympathise with
> another giant (Microsoft).
Check out how they treat Firefox.
http://mediadownloads.walmart.com/mmce/jsp/storeHome.jsp
Open the link above using Mozilla Firefox and see for yourselves. With the
executive links, one wonders if one giant shelters another by locking out
the rivals.
http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/01/the_appearance.html
"In the meantime, it's nice to see that Microsoft?s COO hasn't lost his
Wal-Mart friends (he was CIO there, of course, before he joined Microsoft).
It's important to call a favor now and again. Whatever smoke and mirrors it
takes to get by"
They spread anti-Linux FUD.
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