At 3:25 PM -0400 8/24/01, Al Hospers wrote:
>> Is it not true that Active-X able media will be safe? that includes
>> Shockwave, Flash, and QuickTime.
>
>not as I read the article. a patent on that technology is owned by
>someone else.
Potentially, but do you *really* think that Microsoft is going to
proactively break _every_ browser plug-in (Netscape and ActiveX) control
just like that? If you thought they had trouble with anti-trust issues,
just imagine the firestorm they would be taking on. Not likely.
BTW - Apple has already created an ActiveX "shim" to address this problem:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/tutorials/activex.html
Regards,
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