Comments on: Buying Support and Buying ISO Standards in Order to Hijack the Industry http://techrights.org/2007/07/24/buying-iso-approval/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2007/07/24/buying-iso-approval/comment-page-1/#comment-1439 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:59:37 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/07/24/buying-iso-approval/#comment-1439 Stephen, the main concerns here are patents and control (e.g. of change). This is not an official port, which means that Microsoft will never have an obligation to cater for GNU/Linux.

]]> By: Stephen http://techrights.org/2007/07/24/buying-iso-approval/comment-page-1/#comment-1433 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:24:24 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/07/24/buying-iso-approval/#comment-1433 From http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070622-mono-silverlight-implementation-emerges-after-epic-hackathon.html

I think the keywords here are OPEN-SOURCE implementations of MS Silverlight…. Surely that’s better than closed source or Flash?

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After 20 days of “intense” programming, Novell’s Mono development team has successfully produced a functioning prototype of Moonlight, an open-source Mono-based implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight rich-media application development framework. In a blog entry, lead Mono developer Miguel de Icaza describes how his small team of globally dispersed developers managed to conjure up their entire Moonlight prototype (almost 25,000 lines of C++ code and over 13,000 lines of C# code) in only 20 days by giving up weekends and working 12 to 16 hours per day in a remarkably epic “hackathon.”

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