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Yes, at which time they could tell closed-source clients to install open-source plugins or open-source and/or more-friendly (Theora-supporting) browsers.

Or someone comes up with a license-free, plugin free solution for those closed-source clients like HTML5 Theora video codec for Silverlight. Wait, someone has done that, and they'll be releasing it as OSS soon. That solves newer IE clients, older IE clients can be told to upgrade anyway, and Safari users can be told to switch browsers because Apple is clueless (or someone will write a solution such as the Silverlight player for Theora but to work with Gecko/Safari).

If you want fast, check out the latest build of Safari for Windows. I downloaded it a couple of days ago after hearing that WebKit is getting closer to a native Windows implementation being possible (their blog has more details on the progress; its quite interesting).

Safari/WebKit is really, really fast. I know, you always hear people talking about how their browser is better/faster/stronger/whatever, and you try it and the difference is negligible, if you can even notice it at all. I've had a few people try Safari though to make sure I'm not mad, and without fail they all notice a big speed increase over Firefox.

Once the WebKit guys finish their work on it (this other blog has more info on what is happening) I suspect we'll see some nice implementations of WebKit-based browsers on Windows - and if they can get it up to a decent base level of functionality without affecting speed, I'll definitely be checking it out.

Actually, the plan is to create a new "gtkhtml" widget that's supposed to be able to work with different backends, so that you can use Gecko, Webkit, and existing gtkhtml through the same API. http://www.atoker.com/blog/2008/01/10/putting-the-web-in-gtk/

Mono is doing very well indeed as a platform independent of .NET or the tie-ins that Microsoft is traditionally associated. There are already several independent Gtk# applications popping up and the ASP.NET implementation is showing real promise. There's a new page of screenshots here. The Gtk# debugger and documentation browser are fairly complete and have been developed in a minimal time-frame thanks to C#. Other pages worth looking at are gsirc and Platano.

Basically, what these pages show is that Mono is less like Wine and more like a complete new development environment for Linux that also has cross-platform ties. There's lots of innovation going on in the Mono community and that's filtering down into projects like GNOME and KDE through Gtk# and Qt#, for example. I say it's all good.

Mono is doing very well indeed as a platform independent of .NET or the tie-ins that Microsoft is traditionally associated. There are already several independent Gtk# applications popping up and the ASP.NET implementation is showing real promise. There's a new page of screenshots here. The Gtk# debugger and documentation browser are fairly complete and have been developed in a minimal time-frame thanks to C#. Other pages worth looking at are gsirc and Platano.

Basically, what these pages show is that Mono is less like Wine and more like a complete new development environment for Linux that also has cross-platform ties. There's lots of innovation going on in the Mono community and that's filtering down into projects like GNOME and KDE through Gtk# and Qt#, for example. I say it's all good.

Specifically, Mono is working on Gtk#, which provides .NET bindings for Gtk+. Gtk# This effectively provides an elegant OO interface to Gtk+. There's also work being done to make Gtk+ fit into the Windows environment, using native Windows and Windows XP widgets.

With Mono, it's already possible to run the same binary on Windows, FreeBSD and Linux on multiple architectures (x86 and ppc are well-supported now, with others in the pipeline). Mono seems to slowly be achieving the write-once-run-anywhere mantra that Java never succeeded with on the desktop.

Specifically, Mono is working on Gtk#, which provides .NET bindings for Gtk+. Gtk# This effectively provides an elegant OO interface to Gtk+. There's also work being done to make Gtk+ fit into the Windows environment, using native Windows and Windows XP widgets.

With Mono, it's already possible to run the same binary on Windows, FreeBSD and Linux on multiple architectures (x86 and ppc are well-supported now, with others in the pipeline). Mono seems to slowly be achieving the write-once-run-anywhere mantra that Java never succeeded with on the desktop.

Phonic is a cross-platform Vorbis player written for the GNOME desktop in C#. It was developed with and runs completely within the Mono .NET runtime environment. There was a Slashdot article mentioning it a few months back.

For the gpal front end to PayPal, sending a $1 to the author is a part of the testing instructions. However, if the developer doesn't have a bank account in the handfull of countries that PayPal will deal with, they can only keep the money in their PayPal account.