The Moonlight Project and Novell are proud to announce the 1.0 beta release of Moonlight, an implementation of Silverlight for Linux.
Today almost everybody have flash installed and browsers of tomorrow will run Javascript very fast. In combination with SVG support such browsers will be able to handle most of the things Silverlight can do. Around 25% of the users uses such a non Microsoft browser on their desktop. Then there are mobile phones where the browser diversity is even bigger.
There is a positive side of Microsoft's push to kill flash using Novell (a Microsoft proxy). And that positive side is that Adobe might be forced to open source flash. Wouldn't that be neat?
The sad thing is that Miguel thinks we are collectively dense and naive enough to believe him and use this stuff. Too many years under the MS yoke have taught those of us with functioning memories otherwise. There are so many things wrong with this I don't really know where to begin but thats OK; those that have their eyes open don't need to be told and the ones that are going into this with blinders on are by definition not going to see anything new anyways. Miguel can do what he wants; he has almost zero credibility left (can be bought and bought cheaply) so for now its apt-get purge libmono*.
I have an uneasy feeling about installing anything that's been touched by Microsoft.
The Moonlight Project and Novell, an IT software, systems and technology company, announced on 2 December the released of Moonlight 1.0 Beta.
The first beta release of Moonlight 1.0, an open source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight framework, is now available for download from the project's official web site. This release is the first step towards bringing robust Silverlight compatibility to the Linux desktop.
Not long ago the Moonlight development team announced that the Linux Silverlight adaptation was drawing ever nearer to the 1.0 release. On December 1st, the Moonlight 1.0 beta version was released.
As early as the the celebration of the second anniversary of the Microsoft and Novell partnership inked back in November 2006, the Redmond company announced the delivery of the first Beta of Moonlight. As an integral part of the Linux and Windows interoperability agreement, Novell took it upon itself to extend Silverlight to Linux and Unix. In Microsoft's quest to deliver a truly cross-browser, cross-platform and cross-device technology, Moonlight complements the Silverlight releases for Windows and Mac OS X.
The beta version of Moonlight 1.0 is now available to download as a Firefox plug-in. The application, is the Linux version of Microsoft's rival to Flash, Silverlight. It makes it possible to play files such as WMV files under Linux. Novell has been granted access to Microsoft specifications and to multimedia codecs and test tools for the project. It was originally announced at the second anniversary of its interoperability agreement with Microsoft.
Linux users are getting closer to full Microsoft Silverlight functionality to view rich media applications on the Web. The Novell-sponsored Moonlight project today released its first beta of its Linux implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight media framework.
For those unfamiliar with Moonlight, it's a Mono-powered open-source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight...
Comments
G. Michaels
2008-12-04 23:03:58
If your friend Will Hill (a.k.a 'twitter') is doing that in Slashdot, who knows where else he's engaging in the same dishonest tactics in order to benefit you?
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Goblin
2008-12-05 01:06:38
Unfortunately you seem to suggest that its all some organized attack orchestrated by Roy. Now either you are in awe of Roy and believe him to be the "leader" of many anti Moonlight stances, or you are incredibly foolish and want to blame this particular site as the root of all evil.
I think you will find that regardless of what sites are saying, people dont want Moonlight, theres very little need for it in the sites I go to and its got the MS taint that says to me DRM & Dollars.
The BBC doesnt want Moonlight, and major sites have dropped Silverlight already.
Mr Michaels. You've given no counter argument that I can see, merely a list of your beliefs in regards to some conspiracy theory you have.
I thought the comments part of a site was for people to debate. You seem to think it a forum to declare your theories on Roy.
Roy Schestowitz
2008-12-05 01:09:34
Goblin
2008-12-05 01:25:21
I will vouch for that.
I have linked this site on MS watch before, and have never even mentioned it to you (until now)
pcolon
2008-12-05 03:57:50
FOSS has no Achilles heel of financial dependency to any major corporation. No marketshare to be driven down or up and can only guess at it's installed base.
FOSS has assembled a huge voluntary development pool Microsoft can't even begin to latch on to or have enough money to buy.
Apologists say FOSS cannot catch up to Microsoft. Based on merit of the wares, it's Microsoft who's breathing FOSS's dust.
In its effort to taint FOSS with its patent-ware under the guise of interoperability is deceiving and disingenuous. A snake can shed its skin, but it remains a snake. There can be no truce with the convicted monopolist.
G. Michaels
2008-12-05 05:22:30
That you agree with him or not is irrelevant. My point is that Roy and his nymshifter friends are engaged in a game of manufacturing consent by shilling opinions. That's not directed at people like you or pcolon the poet here, since that would be preaching to the choir at best.
I don't think that's a particularly bizarre theory given the evidence - at least no more "out there" than most of the conspiracy theories they themselves tend to use as droll simplifications to explain the symptoms of the animosity they create with that trademark abrasive "evangelism" they like so much.
I don't have a problem with whatever it is you believe. Heck, I think it's not even far off the mark most of the time. However, force feeding those beliefs to other people using dishonest tactics and lies (and attacking individuals and disrupting communities in the process) is quite another thing.
Cheers :)
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