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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (62832)	11/11/2001 2:49:26 PM
From: Dave	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Is there a Linux version of the same Quicktime client software... No. Just Streaming Server. For the moment, Linux isn't really a prevalent enough desktop platform to make the port worthwhile. I wouldn't be surprised to see Apple commit to that someday though. Personally, I was surprised that they stuck with BSD for the foundation of Mac OS X rather than Linux, because Linux has the strong advantage of large and rapidly growing base of drivers for all kinds of devices. But since NeXT was up and running on BSD, BSD was a good first platform for Mac OS X, which was designed to be easily portable. Dave