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<blockquote data-quote="quiller" data-source="post: 102675" data-attributes="member: 27306">Which just goes against your point. If it was any other software corporation, you might be right, but Microsoft makes their money from Windows and Office. If they charged for Internet Explorer, outside of Windows, they'd lose a good percentange of the market, which costs more (in the long run) than the $50 a license they'd make.Besides, the open source revolution isn't going to stop. Have you seen Windows Defender? It's actually a very solid application, one that even Microsoft would have packaged a few years ago, but nowadays it is more important the Microsoft be seen giving away useful security apps (to strengthen their hold on Windows, etc) than it is to sell the product and make a bit of extra cash.Back to the point, however: yes, it would be nice to see MediaPortal support another SQL option. I can only imagine the possibilities of MediaPortal being compatible with MySQL... So smooth.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="quiller, post: 102675, member: 27306"] Which just goes against your point. If it was any other software corporation, you might be right, but Microsoft makes their money from Windows and Office. If they charged for Internet Explorer, outside of Windows, they'd lose a good percentange of the market, which costs more (in the long run) than the $50 a license they'd make. Besides, the open source revolution isn't going to stop. Have you seen Windows Defender? It's actually a very solid application, one that even Microsoft would have packaged a few years ago, but nowadays it is more important the Microsoft be seen giving away useful security apps (to strengthen their hold on Windows, etc) than it is to sell the product and make a bit of extra cash. Back to the point, however: yes, it would be nice to see MediaPortal support another SQL option. I can only imagine the possibilities of MediaPortal being compatible with MySQL... So smooth. [/QUOTE]

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