Re: Quicktime movies
Alan DuBoff wrote:
Mac OSX shows that Apple doesn't want to play with Linux,
... but the Rhapsody roots were entrenched in not only the code,
but the minds of the Apple folks like Jobs,
I believe that it is a much older religious issue: bsd vs sys v
(and Linux is not quite either!). I think it was Jobs who created
the NextCube (bsd, I believe), and I expect that he is pro-bsd.
Religious conversions are difficult :-(.
As for Darwin not being open-source, well, I suspect that it is
open enough to be useful. Note that it seems that most of the
interesting bits of the video driver lives in the kernel. Anything
Apple _really_ does not want us to see, they put in the Aqua or
Carbon or other propriety layer (for example Airport and Firewire
are still in there, as are the interesting bits of the Apple GUI).
ObTopic: I suspect that most of the important bits of Quicktime are
in the so-called "system extensions" anyway... so maybe all that is
needed is to be able to write a wrapper for that system extensions.
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