karavite
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Hello - saw this in the NY Times today:
"RealNetworks Accuses Microsoft of Restricting Competition"
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/19/technology/19soft.html
In a nutshell, RealNetworks is suing MS over business practices with Windows Media Player - very similar to the old browser issues, MS seems to be claiming issues of OS integration between the media player and Windows while it squeezes Real off the desktop.
This got me thinking about a question to all out macosx tech gods and gurus - how "integral" is QuickTime to OS X? Is it more so, less so? Does it even need to be if it is or isn't? How can this be compared to some of the MS claims/issues? Please tell us what you know or think about this!
IMO as a user Apple provides QuickTime and even iTunes and Safari in a nice and convenient way that in no way forces me to use them for my media purposes. Actually, I use them all including Real and WMP.
"RealNetworks Accuses Microsoft of Restricting Competition"
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/19/technology/19soft.html
In a nutshell, RealNetworks is suing MS over business practices with Windows Media Player - very similar to the old browser issues, MS seems to be claiming issues of OS integration between the media player and Windows while it squeezes Real off the desktop.
This got me thinking about a question to all out macosx tech gods and gurus - how "integral" is QuickTime to OS X? Is it more so, less so? Does it even need to be if it is or isn't? How can this be compared to some of the MS claims/issues? Please tell us what you know or think about this!
IMO as a user Apple provides QuickTime and even iTunes and Safari in a nice and convenient way that in no way forces me to use them for my media purposes. Actually, I use them all including Real and WMP.