Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 2nd May 2007 19:17 UTC, submitted by WillM
"The Mono open-source project will create a Linux version of Silverlight by the end of year, said Miguel de Icaza, a Novell vice president and head of Mono. At the Mix '07 conference on Monday, Microsoft touted the ability to write Silverlight Web applications that run on Internet Explorer, Firefox and the Safari browser on Mac OS. Next up for Silverlight is an edition for mobile devices, including Windows Mobile. Asked about plans for Linux, Microsoft executives have been non-committal, saying that it will depend on demand. But de Icaza, who is attending Mix, was able to commit without hesitating."
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2006-01-02
Thanks for a good comment. But I'm not sure the people you're talking about are pro-linux at all. They're just religiously anti-MS. It's almost like a fascist movement on the Web with leaders calling for all kinds of attacks against some small, but dominant group. I agree that we should always watch a corporation's actions with skepticism, but the sheer delusions of some people seem to control their lives. Microsoft's goal will always be to get people to use their platforms and technologies instead of their competitors' alternatives. It's not a crime.
Your position on de facto standards is absolutely right, though: to defeat the leader in the field, you have to do what they do even better. In technology, old code and practices are good because they are tested. Switching automatically gets -100 points, so your new solution must have more than 100 points in its favor. If you can reduce the hole by making your software compatible with the old, then you stand a greater chance of winning.