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Apple Sues Sorenson Over QuickTime Codec
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?"
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and my first /. posting
Netcraft confirms: Microsoft is dying. The estimated number
of Microsoft employees (Redmond) until the first quarter
of 2002 was 200,0000. The average salary of each employee
is $50,000 per year. 200,0000*50,000 = $10,000,0000 yearly
expenses just for the payments.
There are no "assets" for a company with the size of Microsoft.
In the above expenses, there are additional expenses for
advertising, bussiness trips, "research", construction of
buildings, taxes, hardware, and others. The number of yearly
expenses are estimated around $100,000,0000 and this is
coherent with the number of usenet postings (0.50 cents per post).
The company can only survive if each year the profits are
at least doubled. In any other case the pyramid will collapse.
Microsoft has already lost 90% of the server market, which
was the main source of income for the company. WindowsXP
sales are much below the expectations of the most pessimistic
(many are fired). X-Box sales are minimal in North America, Canada,
Europe and zero in Japan and Asia. MSN has lost over AOL and WebTV
"just didn't work out".
Fact: Microsoft is dying.
My comment is on topic, do you have a problem with how I express myself? Does it always have to be prose? I sometimes do limericks, are these more acceptable? My god man, I could be doing iambi pentameter... so it's not like I'm being cruel.
Or, in other words...
Whiny nerd complains
There are too many haiku
just a prose bigot
This post is pure genius :-)
I used to have a cool sig but people replied to it more than they did my comments.
Dude, love your sig!
You heard me.
Who the hell is pudge?
Or is that just a synonym for CoyboyKneel?
I am a homosexual. I bought an Apple computer because of its well earned reputation for being "the" gay computer. Since I have become an Apple owner, I have been exposed to a whole new world of gay friends. It is really a pleasure to meet and compute with other homos such as myself. I plan on using my new Apple computer as a way to entice and recruit young schoolboys into the homosexual lifestyle; it would be so helpful if you could produce more software which would appeal to young boys. Thanks in advance.
with much gayness,
Father Randy O'Day, S.J.