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

Captain Jake wrote:
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"?

LOL!

Just accept this view of the world:
* Apple doesn't make anything that doesn't lock you in.
* Microsoft pretty much makes all open stuff.

RIGHT!!

Reality is this: everybody locks you in when they can. When they can't then they play the "open" card. That's business.

Cheers,
Kevin.
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