Linked by David Adams on Tue 14th Oct 2008 03:49 UTC, submitted by Remy Chi Jian Suen
Microsoft announces new rich Internet applications development and streaming media features; company outlines plans for supporting Windows, Mac and Linux tools for developing Silverlight applications. Microsoft also announced further support of open source communities by funding advanced Silverlight development capabilities with the Eclipse Foundation's integrated development environment (IDE) and by providing new controls to developers with the Silverlight Control Pack (SCP) under the Microsoft Permissive License.
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This is part of the very problem. It is actually at the heart of the issue.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlight_(runtime)#Microsoft_support
* Microsoft's Test suites for Silverlight,
* Silverlight specification details, beyond those available on the web,
* Binary codecs for Windows Media video and audio, only licensed for use with Moonlight when running in a web browser."
The words "exclusive access" are the heart of the problem. Those words mean "no open source coders beyond Novell". No downstream participants. No open standard, no open development ... indeed, binary codecs, supplied by Microsoft.
Hence, Microsoft control.
Hence, Microsoft can withdraw support, and their permission, on a whim.
Hence, Silverlight is a way for Microsoft to make it a "Microsoft Web", and for Microsoft to put any other party out of competition ... at their whim, whenver they want to.
Hence ... no Silverlight.
Independent thinkers wouldn't touch Silverlight with a ten-foot pole.
It really is pretty simple.
Edited 2008-10-14 08:40 UTC