Anybody know of a good review of the EULA's of these stores? I think that's a pretty important part, and this reviewer seemed to kind of gloss over that part, perhaps not having read them all (understandable.)
I'm guessing that the reason they haven't ported Quicktime to Linux has more to do with the licenses for all the codecs that Quicktime depends on (from other vendors) and not any fault really of Apple's. Quicktime without all the codecs wouldn't really be Quicktime, and it's likely not in Apple's interest to dilute their brand for no good reason.
It seems to me that the one thing.. the only thing really that differentiates any of these standards / technologies is that they have a central directory and a userbase to match. If there were some way to connect them all via an open source type directory system, I don't see why they couldn't all be trumped. The client could even auto-update itself if any of the vendors tried to subvert it. This client would have to merge peer-to-peer filesharing technologies with instant messaging, but I think this is an opportunity for open source products to pull ahead of the corporations' technologies.
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Anybody know of a good review of the EULA's of these stores? I think that's a pretty important part, and this reviewer seemed to kind of gloss over that part, perhaps not having read them all (understandable.)
I'm guessing that the reason they haven't ported Quicktime to Linux has more to do with the licenses for all the codecs that Quicktime depends on (from other vendors) and not any fault really of Apple's. Quicktime without all the codecs wouldn't really be Quicktime, and it's likely not in Apple's interest to dilute their brand for no good reason.
I miss the Atari ST. Honestly, I *do* wish my PowerBook had a few MIDI ports. I'd trade a USB any day.
It seems to me that the one thing .. the only thing really that differentiates any of these standards / technologies is that they have a central directory and a userbase to match. If there were some way to connect them all via an open source type directory system, I don't see why they couldn't all be trumped. The client could even auto-update itself if any of the vendors tried to subvert it. This client would have to merge peer-to-peer filesharing technologies with instant messaging, but I think this is an opportunity for open source products to pull ahead of the corporations' technologies.