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Moonlight 1.0 Brings Silverlight Content To Linux
An anonymous reader writes "Novell has unveiled some of the fruits of its technical collaboration with Microsoft in the form of Moonlight 1.0, a Firefox plug-in which will allow Linux users to access Microsoft Silverlight content. Officially created by the Mono project, it is available for all Linux distributions, including openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Fedora, Red Hat and Ubuntu. Also included in Moonlight is the Windows Media pack, with support for Windows Media Video, Windows Media Audio and MP3 files."
The poster boy for turncoats.
Microsoft wants to crush Flash, Novell is happy to oblige.
When those pundits said that one day Microsoft would go open source, I'm sure they didn't have this in mind.
It hurts my brain.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Which I think they probably are...
They should be. Microsoft doesn't set their sights on a company and then let them live. They have no forbearance, no mercy. They take no prisoners.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
Ok so when MS have a monopoly in browsers everyone hates them and the EU courts fine them on a regular basis.
Why can Apple package an OS with a browser and not get done for anti competitive behavour?
If MS stop packaging IE with windows what would I download firefox with ?
Flash monopolises the interactive content part of that and its "bad" that there is more competition.
Why are we against one monoply and for another ?
Why are "the people" backing the closed source solution ?
Personally I like Silverlight it does a lot more than flash does (but not everything that flash does), Moonlight is a great project and it is open source and it has MS as a backer so its going to be around for a while. Its driving Adobe and MS to support more platforms and inovate more than they have in a while which cant be anything but a good thing.
Just for the sake of argument, maybe the real complaint should be that the W3C did a poor job "standardizing" on the rest of IE5? I don't like Microsoft, but considering it had the largest user base and its developers are least interested in listening to the W3C, it sure would have made things easier.
Maybe not