Apple gaat de source van Quicktime open stellen, dus dan kan iedereen er wat mee doen.
Apple Computer this week is expected to put the popular multimedia software in the open source domain, as it recently did with portions of the Mac OS X operating system, industry sources said. QuickTime 4.0 offers the ability to do live streaming, which allows content to be played while it is being downloaded, instead of making users wait until the transfer has finished. Because the company is making parts of the technology available in the so-called open-source arena, the server version of the software that sends data to a user's computer can be modified to run on Windows NT and Unix servers, as well as on the Macintosh.
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