Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Sep 2007 17:22 UTC, submitted by gonzo
"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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Member since:2005-07-12
I'm not at all happy with the Mono crowd. The deeper they get sucked into Mono, the more like MS apologists they seem. It's very unfortunate that Gnome has got mixed up in all this, though I don't use Gnome anyway. Sooner rather than later, I suspect the Gnome crowd is going to have to make some tough choices about whether it's really healthy to have the Mono boys and Miguel involved with them to the extent they present are.
It has already been decided that Mono cannot be a dependency for the Gnome platform. Bindings are ok.
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2005-11-05
The problem with Silverlight doesn't lie in whether it's cross-platform or free as in beer. The problem lies in the binary blob, an excellent way for Microsoft to hedge around what can be done with it, enforce control, require MS Silverlight servers, and even eventually charge for the more esoteric blobs. It's all a way of roping people in just as surely as an other proprietary set-up.
I'm not at all happy with the Mono crowd. The deeper they get sucked into Mono, the more like MS apologists they seem. It's very unfortunate that Gnome has got mixed up in all this, though I don't use Gnome anyway. Sooner rather than later, I suspect the Gnome crowd is going to have to make some tough choices about whether it's really healthy to have the Mono boys and Miguel involved with them to the extent they present are. Read the wrong blog, and you'll almost get the impression in some quarters that Gnome is Mono.