Why this big negative about using Apple technologies? Quicktime works well, and is free. All this Applephobia is getting really dumb. Does Sony think they will sell more videocams because they call Firewire iLink, even though Apple created it?
The FireWire name is a registered trademark of Apple, and until mid-2002 you had to pay Apple if you wanted to use the name. You no longer have to pay, but you do need a free licence. This is standard tactics for Apple, they make their technology available to others, but you usually have to pay for it in some way... Maybe this is why Sony used the name iLink?
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2002/may/29firewireTA.html
Alex Rice wrote:
Quicktime is not available for Linux. Quicktime for Windows is a 16MB download.
For a shareware developer to require users to make a 16MB download could be a problem.
I's actually 11MB, but the principle still applies. There is a shareware program that gets the QT browser plugin working on Linux, but ONLY the browser plugin. And why should Linux users be penalised by spending $25 to get half the functionality that Win & Mac users get for free. Until there is a QT for Linux I don't really regard it as truly cross-platform, even though it is my main development area.
My two Eurocents,
Ian Wood
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