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Mono Moonlight - Silverlight on Linux is near

Published 20 June 07 11:49 PM | john.mullinax 
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Just saw this from Jesse Ezell: Mono is expected to release an alpha version of Moonlight later this week at the Paris MIX.  This will let users running browsers on Linux clients view and interact with Silverlight content ... like this on the Silverlight Showcase.   

UPDATE (10-July-2007): Ok, Novell says it's near feature complete, but public alpha is still a ways out...  September or October.  -JCM

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# Tom said on September 17, 2007 10:38 AM:

I wouldn't touch this thing with a ten-foot pole.  The mere fact that Microsoft is "aiding" this effort means that it's poison.  Here's the scenario:  Version 1 of Silverlight plays nice with open-source and triggers massive conversion of sites to Silverlight.  Then, once everyone is hooked, Windows Silverlight slowly, with successive versions, introduces incompatibilities.  By the time version 2 rolls around, the open source version is but a crippled bastard-child.

Microsoft's main mission is to kill open source.  Don't forget that.

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John Mullinax is a Platform Strategy Advisor with Microsoft's DPE Team. Before joining Microsoft in 2006, John held a vartiety of positions at Ford Motor Company, most recently leading IT services strategy to support explosive business growth in China. Other positions included: Enterprise Architect, Application Portfolio Management, Technology Governance, and Product Manager. Prior to joining Ford, John earned his MBA at the University of Washington. Before that, he was Director of Elections for Douglas County, Washington, where he conducted the first Federal mail-ballot election in the USA. Subsequently, he joined the Secretary of State's office as a consultant working with county election officials in Washington state to improve operational effectiveness, integrity, and security (aka, to prevent the kind of debacle we saw in Florida in 2000).

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