Apple Sues Sorenson Over QuickTime Codec

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Apple Sues Sorenson Over QuickTime Codec

Posted by pudge on Wednesday May 1, 2002 @10:20AM from the gimme-gimme-some-lovin dept.

ScooterComputer writes "According to Bloomberg and a bunch of others, Apple is suing Sorenson over their licensing a codec to Macromedia for Flash MX, for 'developing, marketing, or licensing any version of the compression software used in QuickTime to competitors.' For years we have seen finger pointing going on between Apple and Sorenson as to WHY the Sorenson codec can't make it to the Linux platform... and things usually end with Apple saying it is Sorenson's fault. Well, I'd say Apple lied. So, can we all just start putting big pressure on Apple again to release QuickTime for Linux?" (Reminder to Apple users to visit Slashdot's Apple section for more Apple-related news.)

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shouldnt be there for many reasons by 10+Speed · 2002-05-01 10:28 · Score: 2, Funny

Maybe they should take movie features out of flash, and save us all from intros featureing home video footage of peoples cats....
1. Re:shouldnt be there for many reasons by Buran · 2002-05-01 11:53 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Every time you play a stupid Flash animation ...
  
  ... God kills a kitten.
  
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  i am a soviet space shuttle
Re:Wasn't this a bit obvious? by glwtta · 2002-05-01 10:33 · Score: 2, Funny

There is no way for that post to contradict itself more.

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Re:Hmm... by kenthorvath · 2002-05-01 10:44 · Score: 2, Funny

posting a haiku
on slashdot simply implies
you're a karma whore
Re:Hmm... by NoMoreNicksLeft · 2002-05-01 10:57 · Score: 3, Funny

There once was a heckler from Thread #30
Whose comments were usually wordy
You're karma whorin' he cried
With japanese poems he lied
To fight haiku with haiku is just playing dirty
Re:broadening qt technology by unicron · 2002-05-01 10:58 · Score: 1, Funny

You can watch the Star Wars trailers. What more could you POSSIBLY want?

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Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
Re:Hmm... by devphil · 2002-05-01 11:54 · Score: 2, Funny

Limericks are not my choice of verse.
Rhyming three lines is horrid, the worst!
Rhyming two lines is fine,
I do that all the time,
But making the third line rhyme is completely out of the question.

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Re:A contract's a contract by BitwizeGHC · 2002-05-01 13:46 · Score: 2, Funny

A contract is a contract is a contract... but only between Farengi. :) Maybe Quark was a member of Sorenson's legal team? Big tech companies often exude Farengi-like levels of sleaziness so it wouldn't surprise me...

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Re:This doesn't mean Apple lied. Duh! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-05-02 02:39 · Score: 1, Funny

Sheesh. You'd be hard pressed to find more sensationalistic headlines in the Weekly World News.

You obviously missed the story about Batboy's 1500-pound brother reverse-engineering the Windows video format (getting sued by MPAA and MS in the process). He released a video on Gnutella that clearly shows the JFK shooter on the grassy knoll, along with a leaked preview of "Return of the King", including the uncensored version of the gay sex scene between Gandalf and Pippin.