Petition For a Linux Port of the QuickTime Player

[ Linux Today reader J. Reeves Hall writes: ]

“We’ve decided to politely petition Apple to release a
quality and up-to-date QuickTime movie player for Linux. Why
shouldn’t Linux be able to play QuickTime flicks just as well as
those “other” OS’s?“

From the petition page:

“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.”

The petition form is here.