"George Patterson" wrote in message
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Not at all. They've done this with various standards, including HTML and
XML.

Those actions were not designed to make its competitors appear inferior.
They were done in an attempt to control the standard.

Whether that's better or worse behavior is irrelevant. The fact is, the two
motivations are completely different.

The idea that the reason Windows Media Player will correctly figure out the
media type even when the HTTP header is incorrect is that Microsoft is
specifically trying to make its competitors appear inferior most certainly
IS ridiculous.

Unless, of course, you consider simply trying to make a better product to be
the same as intentionally making your competitors products look inferior.
If that's the case, I guess we'd better sic the government regulators on the
luxury car manufacturers, and the camera manufacturers (those *******s,
always trying to one-up each other), and for sure we'd better sic them on
Apple. Have you seen that iPod? Puts all the other media players to shame
(most of the time, anyway).

As the end-user, all I care about is whether my video plays. I don't give a
crap about how it plays or why it plays, and I get mad when it doesn't play.
It is absolutely ridiculous for someone to complain about a media player
that plays the video correctly.

Pete