aFreak@catsrule.garfield.com" rel="external">DaFreak bracht ons op de hoogte van deze petitie, waarin Apple gevraagd wordt om een Linux port van Quicktime te ontwikkelen. Volgens de initiatiefnemers is er op dit moment vooral op multimedia gebied een gebrek aan goede Linux software:
Apple's QuickTime software has historically been an innovation leader in the field of making multimedia available to the masses, with their advanced movie player and state-of-the-art streaming technology.Linux is bringing state-of-the-art performance, reliability, and security to the desktop of tens of millions of users worldwide. It offers a highly powerful, flexible, and increasingly user- friendly graphical environment with unparalleled connectivity to the Internet and the World Wide Web.
Currently, one field of slow development in Linux is in high- quality multimedia applications, particularly movie players with support for the latest encoding standards, and in streaming audio and video from the Net.
In light of these facts, we, the undersigned, formally request that Apple make their Quicktime audio and video technology available to users of the Linux operating system, in the form of ports of the free Quicktime Player and the commercial Quicktime Player Professional, to the Linux operating system
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