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Cease and decist...
Authored by: jfaughnan on Nov 25, '02 11:16:58PM

I'd thought this was pretty rotten of Apple too. I don't mind paying a modest premium for their hardware as a surrogate for paying for software, but you can't BUY an external DVD burner from Apple!

I'm told that the story behind this is more intricate than it seems. Apple licenses the compression software used in iDVD. If you buy their hardware then you're covered under the license. If you buy someone else's hardware then you're not covered. It MAY be that the owner of the compression algorithm pressured Apple to put out the cease and desist.

This doesn't get Apple off the hook though. They would serve their customers best by selling an Apple labeled DVD burner that iDVD supported. One wonders why they don't.

john



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