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ko@amertume.ufr-info-p7.ibp.fr (Ko Georges) writes:
>	I've just read from the French newspaper << Le monde >> that
>Apple accuses Intel and Microsoft to have copied and sold its Quicktime
>technology for Windows, and included the names of these two comapnies in
>a complaint already launched against San Francisco Canyon.
>	Does someone have more information on this ?

For some odd reason, comp.sys.mac.advocacy contains a lot of information on
this.

Apple alleges that after Apple paid Canyon to write some fast display code
for Apple's use in their Quicktime for Windows product, Canyon then sold
that code to Intel and Microsoft for use in Microsoft's Video for Windows
product.  The suit is about copyright infringement (since Apple claims to
have paid Canyon for the copyright), rather than patents or trade secrets;
Apple says that it would have been sufficient for Microsoft to have written
their own code to do the same thing.  (Of course, FSF seems no more happy
with copyright than with patents, but at least they deign to use the
copyright system for their own ends.)

One can check out comp.sys.mac.advocacy for Apple's PR statements on what's
going on.  Or one can post content-free paranoid rantings about what The
Evil Empire has done now.  (I'll bet we see LOTS of those soon.)