Apple Denies Opensourcing Quicktime/Changes APSL

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday April 19, 1999 @05:55AM from the stuff-to-read dept.

webslacker writes "According to Macintouch, several Apple sources are denying that Quicktime will actually be opensourced. It could just end up being a simple confusion of Quicktime viewers and Quicktime server, seeing as how news.com made it sound as if all of Quicktime is going to be opensource. " Here is Yesterday's Story on the subject. Update: 04/19 06:17 by H :Apple has said, however, that the newly unveiled QuickTime Streaming Server will be included under the Apple Public Source License.

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QT as Open Source by The+Cheese · 1999-04-19 05:04 · Score: 2

While I would love to see Apple develop QuickTime as an Open Source project, I cannot possibly believe that it would ever happen.
QT is one of Apple's few long-time cash cows; without QT for Windows and the MacOS, multimedia content would be seriously lessened, and I truly believe that Apple plows the money that QT garners back into it's research and development.

-The Cheese