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Mono Abandons Open Source Silverlight
mikejuk writes "The Mono project is about the only group of people actively talking up .NET and developing it, but in an interview Miguel de Icaza has admitted that Moonlight, the Mono version of Silverlight, isn't worth the effort any more. He said, 'Silverlight has not gained much adoption on the web, so it did not become the must-have technology that I thought [it] would have to become. And Microsoft added artificial restrictions to Silverlight that made it useless for desktop programming. These days we no longer believe that Silverlight is a suitable platform for write-once-run-anywhere technology, there are just too many limitations for it to be useful.'"
Am I a bad person to experience a Schadenfreude rush everytime Miguel, Facebook, Zynga or Groupon fails?
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Yeah. OSX, too. HA! A joke. MS spend years and many tens of millions to derail the corpulent and putrid hulk that is Adobe Flash. Instead, they manage to build a custom DRM container for NetFlix, as the sole volume partner/customer.
Anybody else who tried walking out on this limb, wound up getting screwed, per the usual MS bait-and-wait.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Google surely wouldn't create a Buzz in the marketplace unless they were sure their product would be the Wave of the future, would they? ;)
Some of us are in fact non-Plussed by their entirely-too-sanitary products...
Didn't you hear HTML is going on a fast release cycle too? Actually, in ten years we'll have HTML22.04 "Horrid Hypertext" (October release will be "Imbecile Interwebs")