Star Microsoft Takes Silverlight Beyond Windows
Linked by jayson.knight on Tue 1st May 2007 18:03 UTC
Microsoft Microsoft plans to extend its mainstream development tooling to Silverlight, its Flash challenger, and add support for dynamic languages. At the Mix '07 Web developer and designer conference, Microsoft executives said the company will allow .Net developers to create applications for Silverlight, its alternative to Adobe Systems' Flash format. Microsoft on Monday released an alpha version of Silverlight 1.1 that will allow people to write applications using .Net applications such as C#. Version 1.0 of Silverlight will be available this summer.
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by eelco on Tue 1st May 2007 19:21 UTC
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Miguel de Icaza has an interesting blog entry:
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/May-01.html

The release for the DLR is done under the terms of the Microsoft Permissive License (MsPL) which is by all means an open source license. This means that we can use and distribute the DLR as part of Mono without having to build it from scratch. A brilliant move by Microsoft.


and

The rumor on the halls is that IronPython and Ruby will be released under the MsPL license, while ECMAscript and Visual Basic will continue to be proprietary.


Nice

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