Re: Apple as the buyer is not that far fetched...read more

From: "Captain Jake" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 17:42:53 -0600

"Christopher Burke" <borlandng@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Captain Jake wrote:

"Christopher Burke" <borlandng@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quicktime is a closed format.

But it runs on non-Apple hardware just fine.

Just fine ... thanks to people reverse engineering, not to anything Apple
did.

I use Quicktime on a Win32 machine. It was downloaded from the Apple
website. Are you saying that Apple reverse engineered their own software in
order to provide a Win32 version? And that somehow this makes it "closed"?

.

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