OT: Launch.com music videos under Mozilla and Linux

[Gerald Thompson]

Hi guys,

I kind of like watching music videos on the web and was thinking that we 
seriously need to start putting some market pressure on Yahoo to make 
Launch.com work on Mozilla and Firefox under Windows, and even pressure 
them to switch to real media format so that the videos will work on 
Linux.  (They will never switch to an open source media format so forget 
that right now, Real Player 10 works fine on Linux so if they switch to 
Real Media they will be able to hit the Windows audience, Mac audience, 
and Linux audience all at the same time.)

http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/launch/cgi_feedback?from_url=http%3A%2F%2Fhelp%2Eyahoo%2Ecom%2Fhelp%2Fus%2Flaunch%2Flaunch%2D11%2Ehtml 


That link is the yahoo feedback form.

They sent me some crap response thanking me for my input.  More 
important though they sent me a survey asking if my issue had been 
resolved to my satisfaction.  The survey is the important part, I know 
how corporate metrics work and if we can skew their metrics to say they 
are not resolving all cases involving Linux and Firefox, it actually 
effects the bonuses the managers get.  I work for a big company, and 
when surveys say that issues are not being resolved then the managers 
for that department lose some of their yearly bonuses.  So it is really 
important that when they ask you to do the survey saying whether your 
issue is resolved, make sure you do the survey and put lots of notes in 
about why you are dissatisfied.

I know some of you couldn't give a shit about watching music videos, so 
this is more for those who like some multimedia with their Internet.  
Also for those who get really pissed off by stupid companies that don't 
realize there are more people in this world then damn MS Windows, IE, 
wmv users.

Gerald