[pronoiac]

This is a rant about Apple using Quicktime for video on their site.

I can view Quicktime on Firefox on Linux - while Flash only has one halfway decent player, Quicktime files are supported by many different tools & players.

[papachito]

I'm on Linux too, I can't view Quicktime unless I install illegal codecs.

[usaar333]

Exactly. Flash might be proprietary as well, but at least Adobe takes the time to write a binary plugin for Linux.

[jorgecastillo]

And what about alternative platforms tha don't have an Adobe flash plugin. Do you honestly believe that there only exist three OSes (Windows/Mac OS X/Linux)? At least I can download the .mov file just looking for it on the html source, I can't say the same for flash video.

P.S. I use OpenBSD as my desktop OS.

[angusgr]

"illegal" seems like a stretch. I'm on Ubuntu Karmic w/ Chrome and it plays fine through the totem plugin, with no quicktime-specific packages installed.

[sqrt17]

Medibuntu has made the step of installing codecs with shaky legal status incredibly easy. I used to cuss a lot more about video decoding in Linux.