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To: Bearded One who wrote (21222)11/10/1998 4:23:00 PM
From: XiaoYao  Read Replies (2) of 24154
 
B) offering a competing product to Quicktime while simultaneously making changes in the Windows Registry so that Quicktime would not work correctly?

You always listen to one side of story and think that is the fact.

"Response to Allegations About Apple's QuickTime Plug-In for Internet Explorer"
msdn.microsoft.com

Mindcraft examined several cases where QuickTime multimedia plug-ins did not run as expected in Internet Explorer 4.0. The company discovered three root causes for the problems, including errors in Apple's code:

1. Version 2.0.1 of Apple's QuickTime Plug-In fails to provide the resources, outlined in Netscape's instructions, that tell Internet Explorer that it can handle files with "aifc," "qt," or "vfw" filename extensions.
2. Internet Explorer automatically gives precedence to ActiveX controls (such as ActiveMovie and WindowsMedia player) over plug-ins (such as the QuickTime Plug-In). This can be overridden by use of the EnablePlugIn registry key, but Apple did not use this override key.
3. Internet Explorer always uses registered helper applications for audio files referenced using the HREF HTML tag. A plug-in will not be used for playback of an audio file via HREF. This is a feature of Internet Explorer.

If you understand anything about software install and registry stuff, you should understand what this is talking about. That is the allegation of "disable" competitors' products, did you see the episode of RealPlayer's allegation when its CEO testified?
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