"Microsoft today released to the web Silverlight 1.0, a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering richer user experiences on the Web. In addition, Microsoft will work with Novell to deliver Silverlight support for Linux, called Moonlight, and based on the project started on mono-project.com."
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Silverlight is backend by MS.
Flash is backend by Adobe. Adobe don't have any problem with Linux. MS Does.
Adobe has problems with Linux. Just look at how long it took to get flash 9 ported.
Adobe is just as closed source as Microsoft. The only difference is that adobe for time to time releases some linux binaries (And with this move by Microsoft, you can bet Adobe will keep its linux client up to date).
Microsoft is doing the exact same thing as Adobe, with the exception that its using mono, which will actually make Silverlight run on more platforms than Flash. From what iv seen, they are in it for the long run, so we can expect it to be reasonably updated aswell.
Ofc, we could all ignore Microsoft's attempt at making silverlight cross platform. We can sit in the darkness when huge companies such as ABC and NBC starts to release content for silverlight, that we on Linux cant access. We can sit in the dark while Microsoft makes even more money selling Windows licenses, becuse linux users are forced to Windows to watch rich media.
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Flash is backend by Adobe. Adobe don't have any problem with Linux. MS Does.
Pardon? what is the difference between overt hatred of GPL (Linux does not equal GPL, it uses GPL) and covert hatred of Linux by Adobe by virtue of their crap support for Linux.
We're talking about the same company that got 3/4 of the way through to releasing Framemaker for Linux and withdrew it from the market. If Adobe were such 'friends' of Linux, they would have not only released that but actually pulled finger and released a creative suite for Linux.
Sorry, atleast with Microsoft there is a level of consistancy; if they're going to screw someone over, they'll do it outright with no effort to covert it. The fact is Microsoft has nothing to lose by support Moonlight given that Microsoft will be firstly the main provider of services and secondly by virtue of the fact that their IDE will always be superior to what ever the opensource world puts out. In otherwords, somewhere along the line a Windows computer will be needed in the creation or deployment of it.
Getting back to Microosft; the vast majority who do like *NIX don't want Microsoft destroyed; we want healthy competition where all rivals keep each other on their toes - pushing innnovation rather than having things stand static because of the lack of competition.
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2005-11-23
I know, This is a horrible idea... I'll never use this crap nor will I use Flash.
What will you use, and why?
The days of animated gif files are over.
There are no real alternatives to flash and silverlight.
Read up on silverlight. It's actually very impressive.