On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 17:14 -0400, MikeDL wrote:
It didn't work for the Olympics, either. The Linux "support" (mono, silverlight) have given companies an excuse to use the monopolist crap since it's "cross-platform".
Of course, the mono people refuse to see the Microsoft strategy...
mike.
I think we need a jingle: "Stop the FUD!"
These companies (or in this case, political parties) don't give a crap
about 'cross-platform' or any of this. To them, Windows is over 90% of
everyone, Silverlight is available on Macs as well I believe so then
those folks are served, and to these companies/organizations, over 95%
of the people being able to see their video is fine.
Why do they use Silverlight then? One of two reasons: either the web
designer either needed some of the tech only available in Silverlight
(I'm not sure what that would be, but it's possible), was could have
been the case with the NBC broadcast of the Olympics, but not with the
DNC,which should just be streaming video. The other reason is because
I'm sure Microsoft was paying off NBC Universal for the Olympics, and
despite their stance against corporate donors, I have little doubt
there's some "campaign contributions" going on from Microsoft to the
Democratic Party.
The Mono people see the Microsoft strategy, and they're working to make
sure that if Silverlight does become an important part of the Internet,
that we'll have a working, open source implementation of it so when the
next Olympics or DNC or whatever comes around, a new user to openSUSE
(or Linux in general) can watch it and not be put off to going back to
Windows or Mac. That being said, I don't know what the status of
Moonlight's compatibility with Silverlight is, so if anyone out there
from the Moonlight team would like to chime in on that, I'm sure it
would be highly appreciated.
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Kevin "Yo" Dupuy - openSUSE Member
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