Quicktime and which codec is supported

[Richard Gaskin]

Jeff, what you wrote about the QuickTime license is technically correct, 
but I feel it may be in everyone's interest to note that Apple's 
priority appears to be to simply make sure people are using the version 
with the greatest security and fewest bugs; they're not going out of 
their way to annoy developers.

We covered this earlier, and I provided the email address of the helpful 
Apple rep who has answered similar licensing questions for my clients:
<http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2005-February/051120.html>

I currently maintain four products which require QuickTime to use all of 
their features, and we just provide a link to Apple's download page in a 
dialog that checks for QT on startup.  That may not work well for 
everyone, but it solves a lot of problems for the majority of 
downloadable software products very easily.

While I may have many varied opinions about Apple's business practices, 
I must say that with QuickTime licensing I've found them to be very 
helpful, and well worth the modest expense of downloading a form and 
dropping a CD in the mail.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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