On Thursday 28 August 2008 12:33:41 am Manne Merak wrote:
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 remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org