Moonlight 2 Released, Patent Deal Extended Beyond Novell
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 18th Dec 2009 16:58 UTC
Mono Project The Mono project has released Moonlight 2, the open source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight. Moonlight allows Silverlight content to run on platforms that do not have an official Silverlight client, such as Linux and PowerPC Macs. Microsoft also expanded its patent agreement with Novell to cover all users of Moonlight, no matter the Linux version.
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by Hiev on Fri 18th Dec 2009 17:00 UTC
Hiev
Member since:
2005-09-27

Thank you Microsoft and thank you Novell.

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by kragil on Fri 18th Dec 2009 17:30 in reply to "..."
kragil Member since:
2006-01-04

And I say: "Thanks but no thanks."

Flash and Silverlight AND Moonlight have to die a slow painful death.

Extent HTML5 to do what you need to do, but don't use big browser plugins that only work on a small subset of devices.

They always suck, always, without exception.

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by Thom_Holwerda on Fri 18th Dec 2009 17:35 in reply to "RE: ..."
Thom_Holwerda Member since:
2005-06-29

Extent HTML5 to do what you need to do


Gladly, but sadly, with the pace standards are developed, we might see the finalised HTML 5 spec around the time the stone gets put on my grave.

But yes, they obviously need to die.

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by hackus on Sun 20th Dec 2009 02:16 in reply to "RE: ..."
hackus Member since:
2006-06-28

Agreed.

We don't need proprietary closed systems to deliver content.

That is very very bad.

Particularly if it is scientific or political content.

We already have enough hank panky going on with Flash and Silverlight sites, we don't need anymore.

-Hack

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by trenchsol on Mon 21st Dec 2009 13:37 in reply to "RE: ..."
trenchsol Member since:
2006-12-07

That is your wishful thinking and nothing else. Flash, Silverlight and Moonlight are moving on. Flash is being used by countless people daily.

I am not fan of those technologies, too, but they are here to stay. One should learn to live with it, like it or not.

Your dramatic posts are not going to change anything, not even a little bit.

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