[M4IF Discuss] Dispute won't clock QuickTime 6 -- ZDNET

[Daniel B. Miller]

hmm...
"very hopeful" is the kind of language you hear from negotiators who know
there is no hope of a solution anytime soon.
 ___  Dan Miller
(++,) CTO and founder, On2 Technologies
On Tue, 7 May 2002, Moeritz, Sebastian wrote:
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> http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-901282.html
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> Dispute won't clock QuickTime 6
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> By Ian Fried
> Special to ZDNet News
> May 7, 2002, 9:20 AM PT
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> Apple Computer said Monday that it would release QuickTime 6 late this
> summer, even though it has yet to resolve a licensing dispute over a new
> file format it plans to adopt.
> Apple, which is building QuickTime 6 around the MPEG-4 file format, is one
> of several tech companies that balked at a licensing agreement that would
> require many of those that broadcast using the format to pay a royalty.
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> In February, Apple delayed QuickTime 6 because of the dispute.
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> Apple said there has been progress from MPEG LA, which licenses the format,
> but said that a final deal has not been worked out.
> "It just means we're very hopeful," Apple Senior Vice President Phil
> Schiller said in an interview. Schiller said things were "moving in the
> right direction."
> Apple plans to release QuickTime 6 as part of an update, code-named Jaguar,
> to its Mac OS X operating system.
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