Sorry, but the use of technology, which amounts to Microsoft's screwy
attempt to leverage their operating system monopoly into the realm of
audio delivery, led me to refrain from using the Twangcast site, which
seemed a very great content idea.
I do run Linux as my main platform and a Mac for some video editing, so of
course this is a problem. Moreover I refuse to put any Microsoft product
on either of these two boxes, even if they did work.
The choice for me is ethical: I have an NT box (that is kind enough to
crash for me from time to time) that can of course use Microsoft Media
Player. But I won't. I can't believe it is cheaper to deploy than a
Real Server on a free Unix platform, but if it is, it is only temporary as
Microsoft sucks you in, kills compitition and then jacks the prices up,
up, up.
Country is the people's music: it is at its best an open and communitarian
tradition (in spite of Roy Acuff). Microsoft is the antithesis of those
values. They are closed, controlling and proprietary. This email forum
would not exist if Microsoft had had its way early on, in its attempts to
control internetorking early on. It exists because of open technology
standards, which Microsoft fights, bends and distorts.
My humble opinion,
Lance
