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To clarify a bit more
on this, since one can’t have multiple QuickTime versions on the same
machine, Apple is leaving all third-party software products that are using
QTJava (and QuickTime in that meaning) hung, since you can’t ask your
client to uninstall the latest QuickTime they have and install an older one (if
ever they can find the installer for that older version and if it works ok with
the latest OS etc.). After all they may have licensed QT Pro (pro keys don’t
work backwards [neither forwards] in QT versions), or may have other products
installed that need the latest QT or need to use media formats that only the latest
QT supports well etc. So please Apple,
release the QTJava wrapper using some GPL2+amendment (similar to Sun) or using
MPL license and allow the community to take care of keeping it work with the
latest QuickTime. I believe we have enough experience to handle such a task.
Plus you get a cheap ride at the OpenSource wagon that way and gain some
popularity among coders and some free marketing hype from the media. That way
you convert negative publicity (abandoning QTJava) to positive (opensourcing
QTJava, releasing it to the opensource community etc.). Don’t repeat the
OpenDoc mistake by locking products that trusted your API into oblivion. Even MS is doing opensource
these days, so why shouldn’t you (see WMP plugin for Firefox for example
by opensource@Microsoft team, or Codeplex.com etc.) Cheers, George -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o- George Birbilis (email@hidden) Microsoft MVP J# 2004-2008 Borland "Spirit of Delphi 2001" QuickTime QTVR ActiveX .NET Delphi http://www.zoomicon.com http://birbilis.spaces.live.com http://www.mech.upatras.gr/~Robotics -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o- QTJava is a wrapper
around QT, doesn’t include any codec implementations itself. What
I’m saying is to opensource QTJava, not QuickTime… ------------- Yes, but that would put the responsibility for licensing the
codecs on the application developer. Financially difficult if not
impossible for most small developers. It would be nice if Apple released the QTJava source-code as
opensource. People could update it then I guess (it would become a per-app private
library of course, not a system-wide installation since there would be many
flavours/versions of it around after that, but that’s not hard to do) Cheers, George -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o- George Birbilis (email@hidden) Microsoft MVP J# 2004-2008 Borland "Spirit of Delphi 2001" QuickTime QTVR ActiveX .NET Delphi http://www.zoomicon.com http://birbilis.spaces.live.com http://www.mech.upatras.gr/~Robotics -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o- |
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| >RE: QTJava will be depreciated next year. (From: "George Birbilis" <email@hidden>) | |
| >RE: QTJava will be depreciated next year. (From: Alex Shaykevich <email@hidden>) |
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