Not a very good approach.. (Score 5)

i think the idea of the petition is great, i support it, i signed it. but i see what i think is a real problem when i was skimming through the signatures. there are a lot of posts that point out reasons that aren't really advantageous to Apple *at all*. this is understandable, but why should Apple care that not having QuickTime is what's keeping you from begin able to ditch Windows? you're not ditching Windows for MacOS, are you? or asking them to support other BSDs (other than MacOS X, that is), or Solaris, or BeOS.. why should they?

i think they should, but what i'm getting at is that a lot of these comments actually seem to emphasize things that would (IMO) encourage Apple to *not* make QuickTime for Linux..

there also seem a fairly high number of pretty derogatory posts and posts that if were working for Apple, i would read and think "what a bunch of jerks, screw them."

things like..

"Or, you could just exclude millions of users from your worthless, overhyped video system."

or...

"Quicktime on Linux would be nice, even thoug the .mov media format sucks ass."

uh huh, thanks. or...

"Im going LINUX..........
................follow or perish"

what incentive. how about...

"I'm not too fond of Apple or Mac OS... ugh, user-friendlyness, get it off me! :)"

how does saying, "i don't like you, but do a lot of stuff for me anyway" make sense?

then there's a number of people who pointed out that they switched to PC's from Mac and they miss QuickTime. i'm sorry, but i can't see a lot of sense in supporting the people who ditched you for your competitors..

really people, haven't you ever heard that you shouldn't bite the hand that feeds you? same thing goes for the hand that you're asking for food from.