At 18:48 2/3/01, mike cash wrote:
>Many moons ago, if you were going to include Quicktime on a CD-Rom for
>mass-duplication, you had to pay a Fee for each CD (at least that's what
>I've been told anyway).
>
>I've searched apple's site all over about Quicktime and have found that
>you have to sign an agreement with them but, never saw anything about a fee.
>
>Is this a nasty rumor? Was it true in the past and not now? Or is Apple
>just hiding the fee as to not scare anyone off?
It's true. Way back ('94 or '95?) they wanted $200 per title (not per CD).
This quickly steered one of my clients into using AVI - even though AVI's
didn't come close to QT in quality in those days. It must not have lasted
very long, though, because the next time I looked into it the license was
required, but free. And so it remains to this day.
--
Mark A. Boyd
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