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Re: [News] Tim Bray Slams Microsoft Olympic Stunt (Lock-in)

* Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:

> ____/ Linonut on Tuesday 12 August 2008 12:07 : \____
>
>> * Tim Smith peremptorily fired off this memo:
>> 
>>> PS: you can watch the Olympics live on Linux:
>>>
>>>    <http://digg.com/linux_unix/How_to_Watch_Olympics_Live_under_Linux>
>> 
>> This one's funny:
>> 
>>    totalblackout, 11 hr 40 min ago, -6/+2for linux users who want to use
>>    www.nbcolympics.com
>>    I believe you can use
>>    http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight
>> *  then change your user agent to windows
>>    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59
>> 
>> The asterisk marks the funny part.
>  
> Silverlight does not run on GNU/Linux. Why? Microsoft didn't want to port it.
> Novell was its excuse, as reported (with a quote from Microsoft) about a month
> ago.
>
> Moonlight is only for Novell customers. Really? Yes, watch the covenant.
> Moonlight requires Mono.

Thanks for the correction.  /That/ is the true funniest part.

What a laugher!

Ha ha!

<weeps quietly>

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