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Subject: Re: [AN1x] OT: Apple buys Emagic

From: Peter Korsten <peterk@...>
Date: 2002-07-04

On Wed, 03 Jul 2002 19:18:54 -0700 Futurestep Recordings wrote:

> What is it 5% Mac users, %95 Windows? It is very nice for Mac users to ba
> able to communicate with the rest of the world, so having things like
> Microsoft Word, Windows Media Player, and Outlook for Mac allows for this.
>
> When QuickTime was a more popular video format than what is out now, PC
> users couldn't use it, so, Apple made a QuickTime player for PC.
>
> At some point, you have to make more and more stuff compatible.

Other platforms would be compatible, if Microsoft wouldn't make every
frigging single protocol and file format proprietary.

- Peter (writing this from his Sun Blade system, running Solaris 8, Gnome
1.4, and Netscape 6 for Solaris)

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