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


To: Dave who wrote (62835)11/11/2001 3:11:10 PM
From: Bill Fischofer  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74651
 
Perhaps because had they chosen Linux MacOS would have fallen under the GPL?

Here's another guess. Quicktime will never be made available on Linux because no Linux user would pay for Quicktime Pro and Apple isn't in the charity business.

And that's the real problem with Linux and the philosophy of "free" software. Ultimately you do get what you pay for.