Philipp Thomas wrote:
On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:28:44 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
2.) Moonlight will save *LOTS* of people from having to run Internet Explorer in order to access sites they MUST use in order to do their jobs.
Oh come on! At least in its current state, I really doubt that anyone is actually using silverlight. I have yet to come aross a web site that uses it.
Philipp
True, beyond the little "playgrounds" MS has probably paid for, no one is currently using Silverlight, so we probably should just ignore it and hope it never takes off. If it does become as ubiquitous as Flash, hopefully by that time it will either be too difficult to try and make a "catch-up" Linux version, or perhaps by that time MS will just have realized how powerful a bludgeon it has become and refuse to open it or modify it for other than pre-approved uses (tried Flash on 64-bit Linux lateley? Hint - Adobe doesn't care, despite what it has told the "developers" it has put on the "converting code to 64-bit " job to tell us.). As much as we may hate MS software, we must, when given the opportunity, seize any openness that they will allow, because we all know the MS way: take something that has been standardized, or suggested to be standardized, make an implementation that follows little or no commands/suggestions in the standard, refuse to document or open the MS way to scrutiny, and by virtue of its market share distribute its soon-to-be de facto standard among countless users who really don't know any better. --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org