Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2162 mails)

[Ken Schneider <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kevin Dupuy pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> 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.

You are aware that MS owns NBC aren't you? So no wonder it has MS 
components in the web site.

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Ken Schneider
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