From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 04:29:28 -0400, Paul wrote:   
      
   > On Sat, 3/22/2025 2:58 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >> What happened to Windows Media Center?   
   >>   
   >> Killed off by Linux.   
   >>   
   > Uh, not really.   
   >   
   > Right now on Windows, it needs a HEVC license from the Microsoft Store,   
   > so that HEIC can be decoded. Rather than Microsoft pay that out of their   
   > own pocket, you buy the item from the Microsoft Store, and that gives   
   > you the CODEC needed. If they didn't do that, they'd be sued.   
   >   
   > Linux doesn't get sued, because they are giving away the software and   
   > not making money from it. the Linux overhead expense is different.   
   >   
   > As "compensation" for Media Center, for a short time,   
   > on the next OS where Media Center was discontinued,   
   > you were given two MPEG2 CODECS "for free". To Microsoft then, that   
   > represented the "value" to them, of the removed software.   
   >   
   > Another expense for Media Center, was the Guide Data feed per user.   
   > Linux doesn't have Guide Data. Professional Guide Data always costs   
   > money.   
      
   Funny, you said Windows Media Center wasn’t killed by Linux, and then go   
   on to list a long catalogue of reasons why it was.   
      
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