Re: quicktime4 player for linux?
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 04:13:55PM -0500, Joe Block wrote:
> aphro wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Joe Block wrote:
> >
> > jpb >In fairness to Apple, it isn't their codec to give away. They license
> > jpb >the sorenson codec from Sorenson Vision (http://www.s-vision.com) who
> > jpb >are the ones not giving it away. It might be possible to talk the
> > jpb >s-vision folks into releasing a playback only version of the codec.
>
> They didn't buy them outright, just distribution rights.
I might have got it wrong, but when I contacted Sorenson I was told that
Apple was the one to talk to. Anyways, it is a strange behaviour, to change
the licencing policy to not support *nix systems, when other companys start
to do it.
Jens
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