Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 15th May 2008 13:38 UTC, submitted by gonzo
On his blog, Miguel de Icaza announced the first public releases of Moonlight. Moonlight is the open source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight, the company's Flash competitor. Moonlight is not yet free of bugs, though.
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Although you are not allowed to read the details, this covenant apparently only covers Novell SLED customers. Not even OpenSuSe.
Virtually all Linux users, even OpenSuse users, are apparently still liable to be sued (in Microsoft's eyes) for running "Microsoft technology" ... even when Microsoft hasn't actually written any of the actual code involved.
Mono is tied to ALSA which makes it Linux only ... it does not AFAIK even support an abstraction layer such as Phonon or PulseAudio or somesuch.
There is absolutely now way to use Mono to create Silverlight content ... Mono is a "render only" technology ... it is essentially just a player.
Creation of Silverlight content remains strictly tied to Windows platforms only, and is very much a patented Microsoft dog-in-the-manger technology.
In the final analysis, everyone (other than Microsoft) is far better off using JavaFX, Flash or SVG/HTML5 (I don't really care which). All three are in a far, far better position to become platform-independent web standards than Mono/Silverlight.