Quote: Originally Posted by
kev000 
wait wait wait just a second: open source != open standards. I should have said just "standards" instead of "open standards" to avoid the confusion. .
Neither was I. You misunderstood what I was saying. If you do have to depend on a third party (in this case, directx or WMP), you want to know that there are quality assurances that those services aren't going to do something nutty on you and render your software useless. Since Windows is the largest OS on the planet, and they must work with themselves through every release, who would you trust more for your music and video services and codecs?
By limiting your player, you limit people blaming YOUR software for problems. Perfect business decision IMHO.