- From
- Bill Gates
- Sent
- Tuesday, April 28, 1998 9:41 AM
- To
- David Cole
- Cc
- Ben Waldman, Eric Rudder
- Subject
- Quick Time at Apple
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Maybe I am unrealistic in thinking something good could happen but I would love to see enough convergence of QT and our equivalent so that
a) Apple doesn't have to do Windows development in this area. We take some of their codecs and declare victory
b) We get more "energy" behind our competition with realaudio
c) Our efforts to do QT compatibility either get simpler or require very little
d) We use this "convergence" to get more JAVA/IE affinity from apple
I know you are looking at this I am just trying to encourage us to try a strong proposal
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