Moonlight

From Techrights

This page contains links to the many posts that we have about Moonlight. We also have separate pages about Mono Applications and Mono.

Contents 1 May 2007 2 June 2007 3 September 2007 4 October 2007 5 November 2007 6 December 2007 7 January 2008 8 February 2008 9 March 2008 10 April 2008 11 May 2008 12 June 2008 13 August 2008 14 September 2008 15 October 2008 16 November 2008 17 December 2008 18 January 2009 19 February 2009 20 March 2009 21 April 2009 22 May 2009 23 June 2009 24 July 2009 25 August 2009 26 September 2009 27 October 2009 28 November 2009 29 December 2009 30 January 2010 31 February 2010 32 March 2010 33 May 2010 34 July 2010 35 October 2010 36 November 2010

[edit] May 2007

• Microsoft’s Silverlight for GNU/Linux? Only If You Accept Mono. (Updated)

[edit] June 2007

• Novell Helps Microsoft Hijack the World Wide Web
• Pay-to-play for Windows Clone Products
• Novell Helps Microsoft Build Its World Wide Web Fortress of Lockin
• Moonlight (.NET) on Linux Became a Microsoft ‘Pet Project’

[edit] September 2007

• Novell is Still a Pawn in Microsoft’s Web Hijack Plan
• And There You Have It: You Need Novell (Not Just .NET) to Run Moonlight
• Moonlight a Second-class Citizen in a WindowSilverLight Wide Web

[edit] October 2007

• The Mono and Moonlight Roadblock
• Silverlight (and Moonlight/Mono, by Association) Becomes Part of the Antitrust Debate
• More on Microsoft’s Plan to Acquire (Extinguish) the Open Source Threat

[edit] November 2007

• Early Signs of Danger: Microsoft Already Fighting to Steal the Web
• Europe Takes a Look at Microsoft’s .NET (/Mono) Web Hijack Attempts

[edit] December 2007

• Quick Mention: Microsoft’s Popfly Excludes GNU/Linux Users, Just Like Silverlight
• Drinks Under the Moonlight
• Moonlight Patents, Fees, and Microsoft Incentives
• Does Internet Explorer 8 Have a Web Hijack Plan in Store? If So, Does Novell Help It?

[edit] January 2008

• Silverlight’s Linux Exclusion: Thy Name is Popfly (and More to Come) (Updated)
• Microsoft’s Latest: Want Olympics on Linux? Get Mono (and Pay ‘Patent Tax’)
• Mozilla Firefox Meets Silverlight and Novell’s Impact on This Web Hijack
• Microsoft Gives GNU/Linux the Finger on Valentine’s, Using Silverlight
• Moonlight is Not Silverlight, Silverlight is Not Flash
• Microsoft and Novell Pull Another Netscape Using Silverlight, OOXML
• Watch Out. Moonlight/Silverlight Knock on Your Door. All Your Media Mustn’t Belongs to Microsoft.

[edit] February 2008

• Silverlight and Mono = DRM and Software Patents
• Miguel de Icaza’s Talk Now Available As Microsoft Silverlight (or Microsoft WMV)
• Microsoft Redefines “Cross-platform”: Mac + Win32
• eWeek: “Salesforce Says No to Silverlight”

[edit] March 2008

• Nokia and Finland: A Mystery Behind OOXML and Silverlight
• Will Nokia’s Linux-based Internet Tablets Soon Be Infected by Mono, XAML? What About Qt?
• Microsoft Pretends to Obey Web Standards While Novell+Microsoft Phase Web Standards Out
• Plan B: Acquire to Extinguish Life’s Greatest Projects
• XAML/Silverlight and the Microsoft Software Patent Play
• Novell&Miguel Brings [sic Microsoft Downstream to Our GNU/Linux]
• Why Novell Teamed Up with Microsoft for a Web Hijack

[edit] April 2008

• Patent Bomb in a Ribbon-Cladded Box Available for Download from Novell
• Novell Promotes an OOXML Web Equivalent on Behalf of Microsoft
• Microsoft and Its Media Partner Lock #1 Competitor Out of the Olympics

[edit] May 2008

• Setting the Record Straight on OOXML and Silverblight (sic)
• Why You Should Reject Novell’s Moonlight
• Microsoft: World’s Open Source Heroes Are… Silverfish
• Moonlight: Patent Bait Inside Your GNU/Linux Distribution
• Novell’s Moonlight: Crippled and Defective by Design™

[edit] June 2008

• Fedora Forbids Moonlight
• GNU/Linux Users Locked Out of Olympics, Need Silverlight 2.0

[edit] August 2008

• Stand Up Against Silverlight, Microsoft’s Anti-competitive Weapon
• Novell May Promote Silverlight Because It Spreads Mono

[edit] September 2008

• Ryanair is Closing the Web with Microsoft Silverlight

[edit] October 2008

• Media Reality Check: Microsoft Silverlight a Big Programming Scam
• Silver Lie
• The Nomo GNU/Linux Distribution and Another Silver Lie
• Microsoft Makes New Friends in Open Source World — for Windows, .NET, Silverlight
• Silver Lie is Still an Open-Source Lie

[edit] November 2008

• IBM Vice President: Requires Silverlight? No Thanks.
• Novell Helps Microsoft’s Fight Against Ajax, Web Standards, SVG
• On Novell and Microsoft Office Web Applications (Silver Lie)
• Novell’s Moonlight Finds Fans: Microsoft Bloggers
• Silver Lie and Silver Liars
• There is No “Silverlight for Linux”

[edit] December 2008

• Novell/Microsoft Deceive About Moonlight, Generate Hype
• OpenSUSE: Still Trying to Be Microsoft Windows ("The Mono effort has also led to a Novell effort called Moonlight which is an attempt to enable Microsoft’s Silverlight media framework on Linux.")

[edit] January 2009

• Guest Post: Adventures in Novell’s Moonlight

[edit] February 2009

• Why Moonlight is Not Free, and How Microsoft “Addicts” People
• Microsoft Silver Lie Locks GNU/Linux Users Out of Italian Public TV, South African Government
• Moonlight 1.0 is NOT News, So Why All the Hype and Press Coverage?
• Don’t Get Mooned by Microsoft/Novell Moonlight
• New Examples of ‘Slackreporting’

[edit] March 2009

• Novell Becomes Closer to Microsoft — Abolish Mono and Moonlight
• Kodak Groks Mono After Large Investment from Bill Gates, Novell Props up Silverlight

[edit] April 2009

• The Role of Mono and Moonlight Revisited
• Microsoft, Novell and Xenocode (Former Microsoft Employees) Join Forces and Spread Silverlight
• Novell Partners Promote Silverlight, Zeitgeist at Risk of Mono(polists)
• Official Novell/Microsoft Web Site (MoreInterop) Calls Moonlight “Microsoft Moonlight”

[edit] May 2009

• Microsoft Moonlight Reaches New Milestone So Microsoft Crowd Rejoices
• Don’t Let Novell (and Microsoft) Control GNU/Linux, Licences, and Open Office ("Dangers of Moonlight seen in a different light (but same angle); OpenOffice.org needs to be kept away from Novell")
• Microsoft Moonlight in the News
• GNU/Linux Bashers and Microsoft MVPs Masquerade as “Linux Users” ("A lot of Mono and Moonlight coverage is still coming from the Microsoft-faithful crowd")
• If Flash is More Open Than Moonlight, Does That Make Microsoft Moonlight Proprietary?
• Licence to Use Microsoft Moonlight and Mono Not Possible?

[edit] June 2009

• Does Microsoft Moonlight Do to Firefox What Microsoft Does to Firefox?
• Why Mono (and Moonlight) is Microsoft’s Embrace

[edit] July 2009

• Mono Roundup: Microsoft Following, Deception, and the Moonlight ‘Extend’ Phase
• Mono Applications Get Integrated with Microsoft Moonlight
• Confirmed: Novell Puts Mono (and Moonlight) at Centre of the GNU/Linux Desktop
• Microsoft Exploits Feynman Lectures to Spread Lock-in, Does the Same in HPC
• More on Mono, Microsoft, and Novell ("A batch of small updates on the Mono/Moonlight situation")

[edit] August 2009

• Microsoft People Promote Microsoft Moonlight Again
• Novell Fails with Moonlight
• Moonlight and Mono Lack Demand
• More Monkey and MonkeyLight Business

[edit] September 2009

• Miguel de Icaza Joins Microsoft
• Novell’s Moonlight Becomes Less Relevant as Silverlight Gets Dumped Again
• Miguel de Icaza “is Basically a Traitor to the Free Software Community,” Says Richard Stallman
• Is Microsoft/Novell’s Moonlight Dead Now?
• Mono and Moblin as the Microsoft-approved “Open Source Solution”
• Microsoft Might Support Intel’s Moblin to Make GNU/Linux More Microsoft Dependent

[edit] October 2009

• Microsoft Carries on Abusing Web Standards with Novell’s Help

[edit] November 2009

• Novell’s Work Popular… in Microsoft Blogs
• Novell — Like Corel — Becomes a Microsoft Vassal, Promotes XAML-based Desktop
• Moonlight and Mono Not GNU/Linux Projects Anymore
• Novell and Microsoft Have Big XAML News in Store
• Novell’s Vice President Could be Tweeting for Microsoft Dollars ("Miguel de Icaza shows excitement over proprietary Silverlight, proceeds to promotion of closed-source software paradigms for developers")
• Novell Promotes Silverlight
• Salivating Over Silverlight ("If Novell’s vice president is “droolingly” Microsoft’s, then how can Mono and Novell be trusted anymore?")
• Novell Supports GNU/Linux-Hostile Software, NASA Excludes With it After Microsoft MoU ("Does Novell pay attention to this at all? It is currently fighting against Microsoft in court over discriminatory extensions and APIs, such as the ones it’s falling for when dealing with Silverlight.")

[edit] December 2009

• Mono Bullies ("Mono and Moonlight are projects that one cannot ever criticise safely")
• Microsoft Gave Moonlight “Blessings” in 2007
• Moonlight and Hyper-V Still Novell-Only and SUSE-Only in Some Ways
• Accurate Coverage of Novell ("Moonlight 2 released; no Microsoft codecs unless you get it from Novell")
• Neon Challenges IBM’s GNU/Linux Mainframes, EU Challenges IE Bundling, and Microsoft Helps Push Mono and Moonlight Into GNU/Linux
• “The Moonlight/Mono World Does Not Work That Way Though.”
• The Lies About Moonlight Carry on, MSBBC to Block Free Software Users Again
• Microsoft’s Moonlight “Promise” Full of Holes
• Reactions to Microsoft’s Novell Software Inside GNU/Linux
• gNewSense Abandons Ubuntu, Microsoft’s Mono Agenda Revisited
• New Moonlight Covenant Claimed Worse Than the Old One, More Holes Found
• DRI CEO: “The Biggest Risk Was That Microsoft Would Come Hell-Bent to Destroy Us… Not Necessarily by Competing” (and discussion about lessons for Mono/Novell)

[edit] January 2010

• Locked Out of Mono Blogs, by Silverlight
• Bug #1 is Not “Market Share”
• New Opinions on Mono, Miguel de Icaza, and the “Windows Stratagem”

[edit] February 2010

• The Microsoft Apologists and Boosters Really, Really Like Novell! ("A complete list of news articles about Moonlight 3.0 preview shows that its biggest fans are Microsoft fans")
• Novell More of a Reflection of Microsoft as Weeks Go By (more Mono/Moonlight promotion from Novell)
• What Apple Teaches Us About Mono and Moonlight
• Despite Failure (Rejection by Users and Developers), Novell Carries on Spreading Mono and Moonlight

[edit] March 2010

• Moonlight Disappoints
• Novell Wants to Bring Microsoft, Moonlight, and Mono to Linux Phones (Android)

[edit] May 2010

• Journey With Novell/Microsoft Moonlight (and How it Broke Firefox While Microsoft Keeps Breaking Antitrust Law)

[edit] July 2010

• To Microsoft, Silverlight is Not Moonlight and the World is x86 Binary

[edit] October 2010

• Microsoft Silver Lie is Virtually Dead. Is Moon Lie Dead Too?

[edit] November 2010

• Miguel de Icaza Was Wrong About Silverlight and .NET