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Re: [opensuse] So it has begun? Silverlight.
- From: Kai Ponte <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:21:24 -0700
- Message-id: <MTAwMDAzMi54cjR0aQ.1219925914@quikprotect>
On Thursday 28 August 2008 12:33:41 am Manne Merak wrote:
Keeping it OT (on topic), here's an article on where Mono/Silverlight is going
by Der Standard with Miguel de Icaza.
http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=1216918402134
Of importance to us openSUSE users, "For instance last September Microsoft
signed an agreement which results in Microsoft endorsing Moonlight - our own
free implementation of Silverlight. So they are providing us with
specifications, they are providing us with tech contacts, so whenever any
specification is not clear, we have access to their engineers. Also one thing
that is very unique: Microsoft is going to be distributing an add-on to
Moonlight called the "media pack". And that add-on contains all the media
codecs that Silverlight uses, so it contains the MP3 decoder, the VC1
decoder, WMV and all that stuff. We are going to provide Moonlight and they
are adding the codec parts - and this is going to be totally legal, it's
something that they are actually encouraging - that's pretty sweet."
My hope is that such problems as seen at the Olympics and US political party
convention will eventually be behind us. (I did write all my political
representatives explaining that there was a problem with their site.)
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Kevin Dupuy wrote:<snip>
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.
I fully support getting new tech working on Linux so that we can still
be relevant on the web (don't ignore the gorilla in the room).
Keeping it OT (on topic), here's an article on where Mono/Silverlight is going
by Der Standard with Miguel de Icaza.
http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=1216918402134
Of importance to us openSUSE users, "For instance last September Microsoft
signed an agreement which results in Microsoft endorsing Moonlight - our own
free implementation of Silverlight. So they are providing us with
specifications, they are providing us with tech contacts, so whenever any
specification is not clear, we have access to their engineers. Also one thing
that is very unique: Microsoft is going to be distributing an add-on to
Moonlight called the "media pack". And that add-on contains all the media
codecs that Silverlight uses, so it contains the MP3 decoder, the VC1
decoder, WMV and all that stuff. We are going to provide Moonlight and they
are adding the codec parts - and this is going to be totally legal, it's
something that they are actually encouraging - that's pretty sweet."
My hope is that such problems as seen at the Olympics and US political party
convention will eventually be behind us. (I did write all my political
representatives explaining that there was a problem with their site.)
--
kai
www.filesite.org || www.4thedadz.com || www.perfectreign.com
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