Can someone refresh my memory as to how not_giving_software_away is "restricting others' freedoms"? People would have even less freedom if it weren't published at all.
I can understand "do something nice, give it away". But "stop restricting people's freedom"? Come on.
Nothing like starting a nice flame war to liven up your afternoon.
Follow the chain of events, and you will see that the Be information released in court today is a direct result of Microsoft recently claiming in the same court that Be is a viable competitor to Windows. That claim pissed off Be to the extent that they announced a few days ago that they might "join" the case. Now it's obvious why.
The gall... using your monopoly power to shut a competitor out of the market, then holding them up as an example of "competition"... is utterly unbelievable. And ultimately unsustainable. Bullshit and duplicity just don't work the same under cross-examination.
The best way to get multimedia capabilities into Linux is for an open source implementation of the Quicktime API to be created.
Why Quicktime? Because it's a comprehensive multimedia API and its vendor is simply lame, which is a lot better than being antagonistic. It's also good.
Why not just bug Apple to do it? It will take years before they figure it out, years more until they deliver something, and there is absolutely no guarantee they will open-source the code.
I have QTVR code that I am willing to open-source, I just haven't had the time to work on it (see http://www.quickmotion.com).
Some other things people have been glossing over: - MainActor was originally an Amiga port of XAnim, which was then ported to OS/2, then to Windows. I have seen Markus make enthusiastic remarks about doing something for Linux, possibly even porting their sequencer product. I don't know if it would be open sourced. - MPEG4 uses the Quicktime file format - It is possible to reverse engineer codecs. One man, Marc Podlipec, reverse engineered Cinepak. All of us using any platform other than win or Mac have him to thank for having any decent chance of viewing movies at all.
After the way this bozo Schalmansee was ripped apart on the stand, I can't wait to see the rest of Microsoft's "defense."
The whole thing will probably go so badly that they will be forced to have Gates testify. Now that will be really damaging to Microsoft. For a great laugh, read through his depositions as http://www.usdoj.gov.
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Can someone refresh my memory as to how not_giving_software_away is "restricting others' freedoms"? People would have even less freedom if it weren't published at all.
I can understand "do something nice, give it away". But "stop restricting people's freedom"? Come on.
Nothing like starting a nice flame war to liven up your afternoon.
"Off the record," said Sokolsky, "Microsoft sent a shill to our press conference."
Apparently Ms. Eisenberg chose not only to ignore the spokeswoman's request for non-publication, but to advertise it.
Follow the chain of events, and you will see that the Be information released in court today is a direct result of Microsoft recently claiming in the same court that Be is a viable competitor to Windows. That claim pissed off Be to the extent that they announced a few days ago that they might "join" the case. Now it's obvious why.
The gall... using your monopoly power to shut a competitor out of the market, then holding them up as an example of "competition"... is utterly unbelievable. And ultimately unsustainable. Bullshit and duplicity just don't work the same under cross-examination.
The best way to get multimedia capabilities into Linux is for an open source implementation of the Quicktime API to be created.
Why Quicktime? Because it's a comprehensive multimedia API and its vendor is simply lame, which is a lot better than being antagonistic. It's also good.
Why not just bug Apple to do it? It will take years before they figure it out, years more until they deliver something, and there is absolutely no guarantee they will open-source the code.
I have QTVR code that I am willing to open-source, I just haven't had the time to work on it (see http://www.quickmotion.com).
Some other things people have been glossing over:
- MainActor was originally an Amiga port of XAnim, which was then ported to OS/2, then to Windows. I have seen Markus make enthusiastic remarks about doing something for Linux, possibly even porting their sequencer product. I don't know if it would be open sourced.
- MPEG4 uses the Quicktime file format
- It is possible to reverse engineer codecs. One man, Marc Podlipec, reverse engineered Cinepak. All of us using any platform other than win or Mac have him to thank for having any decent chance of viewing movies at all.
After the way this bozo Schalmansee was ripped apart on the stand, I can't wait to see the rest of Microsoft's "defense."
The whole thing will probably go so badly that they will be forced to have Gates testify. Now that will be really damaging to Microsoft. For a great laugh, read through his depositions as http://www.usdoj.gov.