WOW...
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010816.html
thank you Sweeny dude, for pointing this one out to me. I was
wondering what was the thrust of an email from Apple about QT the
other day & here it is. for those of you who don't want to take the
time to read the whole column, tho it is VERY fascinating and I
strongly urge you to do so, here is the CRUX:
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So Eolas sued Microsoft, and the case has been winding itself toward
trial ever since. I predicted back in 1998 that Microsoft would end up
buying Eolas and putting Java out of business that way, but the game
is playing out a bit differently. Eolas has been wiping the courtroom
floor with Microsoft, which doesn't look like it will win. If
Microsoft can't win the case, they will have to pay damages to Eolas
and perhaps pay a license fee, too. But what if Microsoft takes a
different route and simply removes from Windows the offending code?
That would be unthinkable even months ago. It would require the
removal of Java and the abandonment of APPLET and EMBED tags from
future versions of Windows. It would require the adoption of an
entirely new architecture for modular programs using XML. It would
require .NET.
The test of this theory is, of course, Microsoft abandoning EMBED.
Then, on August 10th, came a note from Apple engineering staff to the
QuickTime VR mailing list saying that "IE 5.5 SP2 [for Windows] will
not use the QuickTime plug-in no matter what you do. Microsoft has
disabled all 'Netscape style' plug-ins, there is nothing you can do.
Look for information from us about how work around this problem in the
near future."
Goodbye EMBED.
Of course, this has a delightful outcome for Microsoft. They are able
to abandon Java and blame it on Eolas. It puts even more oomph behind
Microsoft's move to .NET. And as an extra bonus, Apple's QuickTime
(and RealPlayer, too!) gets nuked in favor of Microsoft's next-gen
Media Player.
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get it?????
Goodbye EMBED.
Goodby Shockwave, goodby
Flash!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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