[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: [ale] QuickTime Player Petition

[Benjamin Scherrey]

I'm waiting for a petition to tell Apple not to bother. Why do we
coddle companies who develop proprietary and inefficient protocols and
applications when there's better stuff for free? Linux is already the
best OS to ever run on the PowerPC processor and, when hardware
manufacturers finally start producing those IBM spec boards (okay -
this is taking a while I admit), you won't have to pay the extortion
fee to Apple to get a strong G4 box with a goofy case. Apple has
already lost the game. There isn't enough graphics artists marketshare
to keep their software manufacturers in business so they're having to
port to Windows. I expect that Linux will be their next target
environment and, at that point, only the true Mac-fanatics will pay
the extra money for the translucent case. QuickTime is a misnomer and
not worth the effort. At the most I'd consider a conversion app (which
I believe already exists except for the encoding scheme licensed only
for Apple - what's the point of that?) to move a QuickTime file to
mpeg or another lossless scheme for frame-by-frame archiving.

	regards & later,

		Ben Scherrey

"J. Reeves Hall" wrote:
> 
> A fellow CS geek here at Georgia Tech suggested that we petition Apple
> for an offical QuickTime player for Linux, and I thought this was a good
> idea. We've put together a petition sign-up page, and we'll send the
> results to Apple when we deem we have enough signatures.