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>Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 08:33:55 -0400
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum               <[log in to unmask]>
>From: Karl Fisher <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #5252 Real Audio software availability conditions
>Cc: [log in to unmask]

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Dear Francois and LLTI;

There's no need for Computing Services to provide the Real Audio Player.

Version G2 (5.0 for Mac) is a free download from http://www.real.com

Bandwidth should not be a problem: I often listen to Radio Exterior de
Espana from home with a 56K modem. Also, I have put most of the elementary
Spanish lab program on the web for our students: They love it, since they
can work at their own computer 24 hours a day!

Best,
Karl
>
>One of my German language teachers has asked me to make Real Audio
>Player available on our student network so that his students can
>access German and Austrian radio stations. Our Computing Services
>have asked me to establish that Real Audio Player can indeed be made
>available on our Novell network legally. Does anyone know whether we
>can we do so legitimately? Its use would indeed be, as the licence
>conditions specify, strictly "educational", since Computing Services
>are most keen to prevent the gobbling-up of bandwidth by students
>listening to pop music while word-processing!
>
>Thanks for any information / suggestions about alternatives. Need I
>say there is no budget for the purchase of any software?
>
>Francois C-R
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Karl W. Fisher
Director, Language Laboratory
The University of the South
Sewanee, TN 37383

Lab: (931) 598-1468
Fax: (931) 598-1145