____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Tuesday 26 February 2008 21:10 : \____
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:04:50 +0000
> <7543748.PRXqIsFOC9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> ____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Tuesday 26 February 2008 18:12 : \____
>>
>>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Erik Funkenbusch
>>> <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote
>>> on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:05:56 -0500
>>> <616pr0bnwabh.dlg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:46:28 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Microsoft and Adobe jockey on rich applications
>>>>>
>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>| Scott Guthrie, a general manager in Microsoft's developer division,
>>>>>| blogged ahead of Adobe's AIR and Flex news that Silverlight 2 would
>>>>>| feature a cross-platform version of its .NET Framework and let
>>>>>| developers program Silverlight content using any .NET language.
>>>>> `----
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>
http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/02/25/microsoft_adobe_ria_internet_explorer/
>>>>>
>>>>> It's *not* cross-platform. They keep lying about it. They attack HTML,
>>>>> Flash, LAMP, and Ajax. The US and EU regulators are already after them
>>>>> for Silverlight abuses.
>>>>
>>>> Roy, you are flat out lying on this. Microsoft itself makes Silverlight
>>>> available on both the PC and Mac. That makes it cross platform. That
>>>> doesn't even include Moonlight.
>>>>
>>>> Why do you lie like this?
>>>
>>> Erik does have a point, though we do have a problem as
>>> well. Silverlight is available on at least two platforms,
>>> the aforementioned MacOSX as well as Windows. That it is not
>>> available for Linux doesn't make it non-multiplatform,
>>> though I for one am very annoyed at the lack of support
>>> for what is an increasingly popular OS. (Presumably, the
>>> FreeBSD crowd will be annoyed as well, in their newsgroup.)
>>>
>>> Besides, this is COLA anyway. ;-)
>>>
>>> There is some good news:
>>> http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2007/May-05.html
>>> http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9731410-7.html
>>>
>>
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070507-mono-developers-to-bring-silverlight-to-linux.html
>>>
>>
http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2007/05/04/linux-silverlight-to-arrive-by-year-end
>>>
>>> And there's some bad news. Gentoo does not recognize "moonlight"
>>> as a package name.
>>>
>>> Make of all this what one will.
>>
>> My original post was fine. The Microsoft Agent just wants to warp things to
>> discredit. More explanation here, if the Agent is interested.
>> http://boycottnovell.com/2008/02/26/microsoft-redefines-cross-platform/
>>
>
> Hmm....well, it's still dual-platform, anyway. Of course ideally it
> would be open-sourced, compileable, and alterable as well, with some
> variant of the GPL or LGPL. ;)
"Dual" and "multi" would be okay. A bit like Shared Source, which ignorant
journalism at times called "Open Source" (which it's not).
Microsoft is deceiving developers here to give them the illusion that
Silverlight sites will work for everyone. They won't. In fact, they exclude
Microsoft's #1 risk.
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