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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RE[4]: Comment by satan666
by stestagg on Thu 15th May 2008 15:47
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RE[5]: Comment by satan666
by lemur2 on Thu 15th May 2008 23:31
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So that means you are tied to Novell/Microsoft not just Microsoft. Edit: And I'm not sure exactly how much the Novell conenant not to sue actually covers.
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.
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There is NO patent protection in using their platform.
If I understand it correctly (and I very well may not), the patent protection was one of the big things in the Novell-Microsoft agreement. It was essentially an agreement of patent and lawsuit protection between both parties. Perhaps I could be wrong but that was my understanding of it after reading it.
Edited 2008-05-15 15:18 UTC