Mono Coders Hack Linux Silverlight in 21 Days

Etrigoth writes "After the recent announcement of Silverlight by Microsoft at their Mix event in Vegas, Miguel de Icaza galvanised his team of developers in the Mono group at Novell to create a Linux implementation, a so-called 'Moonlight'. Remarkably, they achieved this in 21 Days. Although they were first introduced to Silverlight at the Las Vegas Mix, de Icaza was invited by a representative of Microsoft France for a 10 minute demonstration at the Paris Re-Mix 07 keynote conference, should they have anything to show.
Joshua, a blogger for Microsoft has confirmed that the Mono team did not know anything about Silverlight 1.1 before its launch. Other members of this team have blogged about this incredible achievement, Moonlight hack-a-thon. It's worth noting from a developer perspective that Moonlight is not Mono and doesn't require Mono to work"

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I mean to say that Microsoft API's on Linux is ok for reverse-engineering, but I wouldn't recommend it for regular users. It facilitates running MS-based viruses on Linux boxes.

Any work to facilitate Microsoft product to run under Linux might demonstrate programmer prowess, and is great for Microsoft to tout their stuff works on Linux, but the fact remains Microsoft technology is proprietary technology.

Any work simplying running Microsoft technology on Linux only adds more importance to the Microsoft Brand. In my opinion, the Linux brand should be given more emphasis. By that I mean to ignore any api's coming out of Microsoft and to simply work on Linux api's. Everyone knows that the Microsoft API's are always littered with undocumented API's to give the Microsoft camp an advantage.

At this point in time, Microsoft may be hiring the seemingly "best of breed" coders but the number they have does not compensate for the synergetic number of open-source sympathizing coders scattered everywhere else on the rest of the planet.

Linux Source doesn't need to imitate Microsoft. The Linux Desktop is easy enough for regular users. All this new XML AJAX stuff coming out of Microsoft is noise and a waste of time.