--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: > > > > Do you see anything about QuickTime here? Do you really > > know anything about video programming? Have you ever > > written a demuxer or muxer? Do you know the MPEG format, > > sequence headers, etc? Have you ever written > > a stream parser? > > It seems to me that Lawson's relationship to the > "superiority" of Quicktime and Apple and what they > have to do with international standards such as > MPEG-4 is exactly the same as his relationship > to the "superiority" of TM to other forms of > meditation. > > In both cases, he was told by the people who sold > him the higher priced product that it was "superior." > That's the only "fact" he ever needs to know. >
In fact, while I suspect that it IS the case that the QT file format is superior to what MS was pushing at that time, it is almost certain that other factors contributed to the decision to use QT over MS's offering besides technical issues (i.e, tossing Apple a bone while denying MS even more of a monopoly over the industry).
