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. -- Kevin "Yo" Dupuy - openSUSE Member Public Mail: <kevin.dupuy@opensuse.org> Meet Bob Barr - Libertarian for President - <http://www.BobBarr2008.com/> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org