Kevin Dupuy 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!"
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.
Sorry for the double reply, but I found this in the Moonlight forum: -------------------------------- ""> I went to http://gallery.demconvention.com/ to watch some of the videos
/ and found they are using Silverlight. />/ />/ I know roughly what Silverlight/Moonlight is but have not followed it's />/ development closely. />/ />/ Can I please get some feedback from people who are already using />/ Moonlight if it is mature enough to play the videos I want to see before />/ I go to the trouble of compiling it all. / It is currently using Silverlight 2.0, which we are currently working on and is at this point not ready for use.
But additionally, they seem to use another plugin to download files"" which is not Silverlight and that we have no idea how it work. ---------------------------------- Thats one other way of getting the non-Win-OSx people out - use crossplatform Sliverlight, but confuse the issue with non-crossplatform plugins. Manne -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org