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

[Richard A. Allcorn]

Please remember ... the thing that makes America great is the "freedom of
choice".  The reason we oftentimes get upset with Microsoft is they've taken
that away from us.  With operating systems like Apples, Unix, Linux, and so
forth, we have a choice.  I choose Linux, but lets face it - Linux is not
the only OS that MickeySoft is out to get ... Apple is a great single-user
OS and is still the leader in the opinions of Graphics Design related tasks.
Though Microsoft would like to change this, the Apple is used most of all in
graphics design and desktop publishing.

I agree we need the utility for Linux as well ... I'd like to see other apps
for Linux too, but lets not take on Microsofts way of doing things of "snuff
out" the competition ... there's room for everybody.

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RICHARD A. ALLCORN
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----- Original Message -----
From: Benjamin Scherrey <scherrey at switchco.com>
To: J. Reeves Hall <reeves at earthling.net>
Cc: <discuss at ntlug.org>; <ale at ale.org>; <svlug at svlug.org>; <ctlug at ctlug.org>
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2000 1:22 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] QuickTime Player Petition


> [ Note: Posted by non-subscriber. Please Cc: reeves at earthling.net as ]
> [ appropriate. --davidw                                              ]
>
> 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.
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