holy crap! the master of expensive license agreements, real, has released helix, which looks like an open source streaming media server. in the coming months, we’ll get access to the code!

obviously this is real’s last stab at survival in the world of microsoft. this could be a good thing - we’ll have to see how it pans out. real’s technology seems to have dipped over the last year. and i think we’re all sick of the damn real one player taking over the system. (i hate all those apps that try and take control by running little crappy agents - including winamp!)