Mono Abandons Open Source Silverlight

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday May 29, 2012 @05:50AM from the singing-in-an-empty-theater dept.

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.'"

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Am I a bad person? by demachina · 2012-05-29 05:56 · Score: 5, Funny

Am I a bad person to experience a Schadenfreude rush everytime Miguel, Facebook, Zynga or Groupon fails?

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Re:Same old microsoft by djdanlib · 2012-05-29 06:12 · Score: 5, Funny

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...